A woman in this novel tells a fable about an Indian chief named "Vendonah," or "Rides-Down-Everything," who walks over people's faces with iron shoes before his tribe forces him to ride a canoe into the ocean.
A woman in this novel tells a fable about an Indian chief named "Vendonah," or "Rides-Down-Everything," who walks over people's faces with iron shoes before his tribe forces him to ride a canoe into the ocean. Late in this novel, one of the Kinneys reveals that the protagonist accepted a job as a nitro-glycerin expert at the Akers Chemical Company. It's the second novel in its author's Growth trilogy, which also includes The Turmoil and The Midlander, Its protagonist crashes his sleigh after yelling "Get a hoss!" in order to mock the inventor (*) Eugene Morgan, despite falling in love with his daughter Lucy. This novel contrasts the rise of horseless carriages with the decline of the central family, whose fortunes were originally established by the Major after the Civil War. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, and focuses on the spoiled, arrogant heir George Minafer. For 10 points, name this novel by Booth Tarkington which was turned into a 1942 movie directed by Orson Welles.
A woman in this novel tells a fable about an Indian chief named "Vendonah," or "Rides-Down-Everything," who walks over people's faces with iron shoes before his tribe forces him to ride a canoe into the ocean.
The Magnificent Ambersons