The Magnificent Ambersons
Magnificent Ambersons, The,novel by Tarkington, published in 1918, won a Pulitzer Prize. It is the second part of the trilogy Growth, which also includes The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923).
Isabel is the daughter of old Major Amberson, who acquired his fortune during the Gilded Age and used it to win a dominating position for his family in a Midwestern town. She was in love with Eugene Morgan during her youth, but they separated owing to a misunderstanding, and Isabel married Wilbur Minafer, dull and sober, for whom she never cared. When her son George is nearly grown, Eugene, a widower, returns with his daughter Lucy to settle in the town and establish an automobile factory. Although Lucy is aware of George's arrogance and conceit, she falls in love with him, and Eugene and Isabel drift into their old relation. After his father's death, George returns from an Eastern college, quarrels with Lucy because she objects...
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