The Magnificent Ambersons

By Tarkington, Booth

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Title:	The Magnificent Ambersons
Author:	Tarkington, Booth
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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Major Amberson had ?made a fortune? in 1873, 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 splendor 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.