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The Turmoil

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Author(s):Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):Charles Bosseron Chambers
Publisher(s): Harper & Brothers Publishers
Year Published: 1915
Type: Hardcover
Genre: American
Families
Fiction - Novel
Historical Fiction - World War I
Romance
Age Range: Ages 13-18: Young Adult
Pages: 349
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
ISBN-10: 0252071131
ISBN-13: 9780252071133
OCLC: 937419688

Description

Two Midwestern families cope with the onset of industrialization. Read online at archive.org.

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Other Editions

Growth (1927)

This collection of three novels, TheTurmoil, The Magnificent Ambersons, and The Midlander (National Avenue), chronicle the transformation of a Midwestern city by the industrial revolution.

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.
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Other Sequels

The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)

The old aristocracy of a Midwestern town finds itself displaced by the new manufacturing money. Read online at archive.org.

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The Midlander (1924)

The conclusion of a trilogy about the industrialization of a Midwestern city. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.
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