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Description
Set in Midwest America in the early twentieth century, this bestselling novel introduces the extravagantly rich Ambersons, whose only real problem is that George Amberson Minafer—the spoiled grandson of the family patriarch—refuses to acknowledge the rising wealth and prestige of business... read more
Summary
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson Minafer becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As George struggles to sabotage his mother's... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Memorable Quotes
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“I'm sorry Mr. Morgan but you're not welcomed here. not today or any other day. now please leave!”
George Amberson Minafer -
“I said, automobiles are a useless nuisance. Never amount to anything but a nuisance. They had no business to be invented.”
George Amberson Minafer
First Sentence
Major Amberson had "made a fortune" in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Booth Tarkington (Author)
- Arthur Brown
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