Hardcover, 516 pages
English language
Published 1918 by Doubleday Page.
The Magnificent Ambersons
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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
- Children of the rich in fiction
- Mothers and sons
- Inheritance and succession in fiction
- Mothers and sons in fiction
- Loss (Psychology)
- Inheritance and succession
- Social change in fiction
- Indiana in fiction
- Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Mothers and sons, fiction
- Fiction, psychological