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Awarded the pulitzer prize after it was first published in 1918, tarkington s powerful social. In addition, it is a view of indianapolis evolution from a major marketing center to a great industrial city. Here in one volume, edited by novelist and critic thomas mallon, are tarkingtons best and most enduring works, including the pulitzer prizewinning novels the magnificent ambersons and alice adams. Booth tarkington the magnificent ambersons is a 1918 novel by booth tarkington which won the 1919 pulitzer prize. It is a typical story of an american family and town the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. The magnificent ambersons is perhaps tarkington s best novel, wrote critic van wyck brooks. In 1925 the novel was first adapted for film under the title pampered youth. Taking place at the start of the 20th century, a time of great technological and social change, the novel focuses on young georgie amberson minafer, the much adored only child of isabel amberson, who is the daughter of the amberson patriarch. Booth tarkingtons 1919 novel the magnificent ambersons won a pulitzer prize for fiction and was the basis for the classic movie by orson welles, the original negative of which remains lost. This book does a great job relating the changes that a town in indiana undergoes in the 1890s through the early part of the 20th century. He is, with william faulkner and john updike, one of only three novelists to win the pulitzer prize for fiction more than once. Jan 07, 2002 the magnificent ambersons is the epic story of an american familys traumatic tumble from the dizzying heights of fame and fortune. Booth tarkington 18691946, american playwright and author, won the pulitzer prize in 1919 for his novel the magnificent ambersons 1918 and again in 1922 for alice adams 1921, later adapted to the screen starring katherine hepburn.
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