The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

The grandest family in a Midwestern town, and their spoiled, arrogant heir, whose monstrous snobbery wrecks his widowed mother's last chance at love, while the automobile and the industrial city sweep away the whole genteel Amberson world and bring him his comeuppance. Tarkington's Pulitzer-winning novel.

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