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The Magnificent Ambersons
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Magnificent Ambersons
Contributors:
By (Author) Booth Tarkington
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Imprint:
Modern Library Inc
Publication Date:
15th December 1998
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
813.52
Prizes:
Winner of Pulitzer Prize 1919
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
288
Dimensions:
Width 131mm, Height 203mm, Spine 16mm
Weight:
243g
Description
This story might be better remembered from the 1943 Orson Welles movie - as the story of George Amberson Menafer and his Hoosier family. It won Tarkington the first of his Pulitzer Prizes in 1918.
Author Bio
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), a prolific writer who achieved overnight success with his first novel, The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), is perhaps best remembered as the author of the popular Penrod adventures and Seventeen (1916). He was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize for the novel Alice Adams (1921).
