The Turmoil (World Digital Library Edition)

A bestseller in 1915, The Turmoil is the first edition of Tarkingston's "Growth" trilogy. This is not a simple pulp Midwestern novel but a story of America's quickly vanishing innocence during the Progressive Era. As America became more industrialized the hearts of the nation's people changed. The Turmoil follows the lives of two families, the Sheridans and the Vertrees, trying to make sense out of the country's obsession with material wealth and find love in spite of the complex shift in where happiness lay.