Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) is one of Booth Tarkington’s most successful novels. It partly owes its success to its cinematographic adaptation by the renowned Orson Welles in 1942. The book contains 35 chapters and follows the descent of the Ambersons from aristocracy to the working class. The events take place in a fictitious town much similar to Tarkington’s native Indianapolis. The family’s...
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) is one of Booth Tarkington’s most successful novels. It partly owes its success to its cinematographic adaptation by the renowned Orson Welles in 1942. The book contains 35 chapters and follows the descent of the Ambersons from aristocracy to the working class. The events take place in a fictitious town much similar to Tarkington’s native Indianapolis. The family’s...
