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 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. 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.