{"product_id":"the-magnificent-ambersons","title":"The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, \u003cb\u003eThe Magnificent  Ambersons\u003c\/b\u003e 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.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Today \u003cb\u003eThe Magnificent Ambersons\u003c\/b\u003e is best known through the 1942 Orson Welles movie,  but as the critic Stanley Kauffmann noted, \"It is high time that [the novel] appear  again, to stand outside the force of Welles's genius, confident in its own right.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cb\u003eThe Magnificent Ambersons\u003c\/b\u003e is perhaps Tarkington's best novel,\" judged Van Wyck  Brooks. \"[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. 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.\"","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51167945720096,"sku":"9780375752506","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780375752506.jpg?v=1769750489","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/the-magnificent-ambersons","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}