THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS - FULL AudioBook | Greatest AudioBooks - The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for the novel. It was the second novel in his Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1925 the novel was first adapted for film under the title Pampered Youth. In 1942 Orson Welles directed an acclaimed film version of the book. The Magnificent Ambersons has been adapted into film three times: In 1925 under the title Pampered Youth, an award-winning 1942 film directed by Orson Welles, and a 2002 made for television film.
The novel and trilogy trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in an upper-scale Indianapolis neighborhood, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money families, which did not derive power from family names but by "doing things." As George Amberson's friend (name unspecified) says, "don't you think being things is 'rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?"
The titular family is the most prosperous and powerful in town at the turn of the century. Young George Amberson Minafer, the patriarch's grandson, is spoiled terribly by his mother Isabel. Growing up arrogant, sure of his own worth and position and totally oblivious to the lives of others, George falls in love with Lucy Morgan, a young though sensible debutante. But there is a long history between George's mother and Lucy's father, of which George is unaware. As the town grows into a city, industry thrives, the Ambersons' prestige and wealth wanes and the Morgans -- thanks to Lucy's prescient father -- grow prosperous. When George sabotages his widowed mother's growing affections for Lucy's father, life as he knows it comes to an end. (Summary adapted from wiki)
-
► [ Ссылка ]
► FACEBOOK: [ Ссылка ]
► TWITTER: [ Ссылка ]
► SUBSCRIBE to Greatest Audio Books:
[ Ссылка ]
- READ along by clicking (CC) for Closed Caption Transcript
- LISTEN to the entire audiobook for free
Chapter listing and length:
Chapter 01 -- 00:26:30
Chapter 02 -- 00:22:14
Chapter 03 -- 00:14:52
Chapter 04 -- 00:21:03
Chapter 05 -- 00:19:07
Chapter 06 -- 00:22:37
Chapter 07 -- 00:21:28
Chapter 08 -- 00:20:36
Chapter 09 -- 00:12:43
Chapter 10 -- 00:20:46
Chapter 11 -- 00:11:34
Chapter 12 -- 00:20:07
Chapter 13 -- 00:28:30
Chapter 14 -- 00:14:29
Chapter 15 -- 00:14:11
Chapter 16 -- 00:15:29
Chapter 17 -- 00:27:42
Chapter 18 -- 00:15:48
Chapter 19 -- 00:13:52
Chapter 20 -- 00:19:29
Chapter 21 -- 00:19:51
Chapter 22 -- 00:11:23
Chapter 23 -- 00:14:25
Chapter 24 -- 00:13:48
Chapter 25 -- 00:13:03
Chapter 26 -- 00:25:15
Chapter 27 -- 00:15:39
Chapter 28 -- 00:30:54
Chapter 29 -- 00:10:58
Chapter 30 -- 00:24:31
Chapter 31 -- 00:28:21
Chapter 32 -- 00:20:13
Chapter 33 -- 00:11:38
Chapter 34 -- 00:23:43
Chapter 35 -- 00:32:03
Read by Mark F. Smith
This video: Copyright 2013. Greatest Audio Books. All Rights Reserved.
