Major Amberson made his fortune in 1873, and for a generation his family ruled the social life of a Midland town where everyone noticed a new sealskin coat. His spoiled grandson George Amberson Minafer grows up expecting that splendour to last, even as the inventor Eugene Morgan returns to court George’s mother Isabel and the automobile begins to remake the streets.
Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Prize and the basis of Orson Welles’s film, a sharp, rueful portrait of American money and change. Download the free EPUB.