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.
Genres
- Fiction
- Children of the rich in fiction
- Mothers and sons
- Social change
- Inheritance and succession in fiction
- Mothers and sons in fiction
- Loss (Psychology)
- Children of the rich
- Inheritance and succession
- Social change in fiction
- Indiana in fiction
- Pulitzer Prize Winner
- award:pulitzer_prize=1919
- award:pulitzer_prize=fiction
- Families
- Domestic fiction
- CHR 1918
- PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- PRO Parkinson, Elizabeth Lyman (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Indiana, fiction
- Fiction, sagas
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Mothers and sons, fiction
- Fiction, psychological
- Large type books
- Classic Literature
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