The Magnificent Ambersons

Author: Booth Tarkington

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Price : 32.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780375752506
Publisher : Random House Publishing Group
Imprint : Random House Publishing Group
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Weight (g) : 0.233
Publication date : 01 March 1999
Dimensions : 210mm X 133mm X 16mm
Produced in : United States
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Author : Booth Tarkington
Series : Modern Library
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Edition : New edition
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 813.52
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Pages : 288
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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.

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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).

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