The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS is the second novel in Booth Tarkington's 'Growth' trilogy, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1919. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS follows the declining fortunes of an upper-middle-class Indiana family from their rise in the 1870s to the early 1920s, when their success is being eclipsed by new-money families.