The Magnificent Ambersons: Original and Unabridged

The Magnificent Ambersons is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington. It was the second novel in his Growth trilogy. The story is set in a largely fictionalized version of Indianapolis.

The novel and trilogy trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in an upper-scale Indianapolis neighborhood, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrializati...