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The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

June 13, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is one of the first books to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it’s also the basis for a  kind of “lost” film by Orson Welles. You can watch a version of the movie The Magnificent Ambersons by Orson Welles, but apparently it’s not his vision or cut. Mythos argues that his version would have been the best American film of all time. Anyway, unlike a few other books that won the Pulitzer like The Age of Innocence and The Bridge of […]

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vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:344 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: booth tarkington, the magnificent ambersons ·
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