The Magnificent Ambersons
About this book
Major Amberson had "made a fortune" in 1878, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then. Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo may now perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York in 1916; and the Ambersons were magnificent in their day and place. Their splendour lasted throughout all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city, but reached its topmost during the period when every prosperous family with children kept a Newfoundland dog.
Subjects
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- award:pulitzer_prize=1919
- award:pulitzer_prize=fiction
- children of the rich
- children of the rich in fiction
- chr 1918
- classic literature
- domestic fiction
- families
- fiction
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, sagas
- indiana, fiction
- indiana in fiction
- inheritance and succession
- inheritance and succession in fiction
- large type books
- loss (psychology)
- mothers and sons
- mothers and sons, fiction
- mothers and sons in fiction
- pro gotham book mart (former owner) (gotham book mart collection copy)
- pro parkinson, elizabeth lyman (autograph) (gotham book mart collection copy)
- pulitzer prize winner
- social change
- social change in fiction