Published in 1915, this was the first novel in Tarkington’s Growth trilogy, which continued in The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Set in a Midwestern city, The Turmoil focuses on two families: the Sheridans sacrifice integrity on the altar of wealth and power, while the Vertrees cling to respectability at the cost of poverty.
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Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist best known for his depictions of life in small Midwestern cities. A lover of the theater, he dramatized several of his own books. Today, he is most noted as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons and for the novel Alice Adams, about the frustrated ambitions of a lower middle class young woman.
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 357 ● ISBN 9781411436299 ● Taille du fichier 0.3 MB ● Âge 99-17 ans ● Maison d’édition Barnes & Noble ● Publié 2011 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 8513544 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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