The magnificent Ambersons

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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.

subjects: 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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