The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

General Books LLC

Penrod’s escapades have delighted generations of readers. The stories in this Indiana classic will captivate still another generation of young readers and awaken nostalgia in many an adult.

Penrod (Library of Indiana Classics)

Reference

Indiana University Press

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1922 offers a wry, realistic portrait of a middle-class, midwestern family dominated by a disgruntled woman who, with her precocious daughter Alice, fashions a series of outlandish schemes to climb the social ladder. Reprint.

Alice Adams (Bantam Classic)

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Bantam Classics

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San Val

The Magnificent Ambersons: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Literary

Modern Library

Monsieur Beaucaire

Reprint Services Corporation

The Magnificent Ambersons is the epic story of an America family's traumatic tumble from the dizzying heights of fame and fortune. A dynasty spanning three generations, the Ambersons' pre-eminence as society's elite is threatened--not only by a hungry new breed of industrial entrepreneur--but from its own arrogance and greed. At the center of the story is George Amberson Minafer, the pampered but pitiful, scion of the clan upon whose shoulders the fate of the family fortune will be won...or lost.At once an exciting chronicle of a family's rise to fortune and its tortured downfall, it is also a fascinating portrait of the forces that shaped American society.

Perfection Learning

In Penrod and Sam, the imaginative adventures of Tarkington's 10-year-old Penrod Schofield continue. Penrod's sidekick is Samuel Williams, and together they improvise, causing general mischief and disorder wherever they go. In picaresque fashion, a fencing battle takes them all through the neighborhood; they narrowly escape serious injury while making boastful demonstrations with a loaded gun; they indulge in dubious "'nishiation" practices for their secret society; they steal food for the starving horse concealed in the Schofields' empty stable; they attempt to fish a cat out of a cistern using a pair of trousers; and they cause general chaos at Miss Amy Rennsdale's dance. Familiar characters from the earlier Penrod volume -- Maurice Levy, Georgie Basset, Roddy Bitts, Herman and Verman, and Marjorie Jones -- make their appearance in Penrod and Sam. This is a delightfully nostalgic look at Tarkington's turn-of-the-century Indiana.

Penrod and Sam

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Amereon Ltd

This is a 1945 wartime edition possibly book club.

Image of Josephine

Contemporary

Publisher: Doubleday, Page Publication date: 1922 Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Fiction / Political Juvenile Fiction / Family / General Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Seventeen

Teen & Young Adult

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