"All fiction collections should own a copy."Library Journal

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent
Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American
dynasty. The family serves as a metaphor for the old society that crumbled after the
Industrial Revolution while a middle-western town spread and darkened into a city.

George Amberson Minafer is the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the
family's magnificence. Eclipsed by a new breed of industrial tycoons and land developers
whose power comes not through family connections but through financial dealings and
modern manufacturing, George descends from the Midwestern aristocracy to the working
class. As the wheels of industry transform the social landscape, the definitions of ambition,
success, and loyalty also change.