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Well, I’m unable to see … that a young man is morally called upon to give up a career at the law to provide his aunt with a favourable opportunity to play bridge whist!
The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth
Tarkington
 
Booth Tarkington
 
1869–1946, American author, b. Indianapolis. His most characteristic and popular works were his genial novels of life in small Middle Western towns, including The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), The Conquest of Canaan (1905), and the trilogy Growth (1927), made up of Turmoil (1915), The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; Pulitzer Prize), and The Midlander (1923).—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.
 
Pronunciation:  tär´kng´´tn from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Tarkington’s telling social commentary charts the rise and fall of three generations of the successful and socially connected Ambersons in the face of a changing America.



 
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