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Published 2009 by Barnes & Noble, Incorporated.
Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington, Nahma Sandrow: Magnificent Ambersons (2009, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated)
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Major Amberson had "made a fortune" in 1878, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then. Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo may now perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York in 1916; and the Ambersons were magnificent in their day and place. Their splendour lasted throughout all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city, but reached its topmost during the period when every prosperous family with children kept a Newfoundland dog.