This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end." In 1925 the novel was first adapted for film under the title Pampered Youth. " 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. It is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," judged Van Wyck Brooks. Eclipsed by a new breed of developers, financiers, and manufacturers, this pampered scion begins his gradual descent from the midwestern aristocracy to the working class. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family's magnificence. The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The first issue dust jacket is virtually unobtainable. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is the second state variant dust jacket, with light restoration. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918.įirst edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the classic Orson Wells film often regarded as among the greatest films of all time.
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