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Book · 1918

The Magnificent Ambersons

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Elegiac family saga Decline and reckoning Nostalgic comparative longing Social climbing vanity Inheritance as a curse Mother son emotional tug

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1918

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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.

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