The turmoil, a novel

By Booth Tarkington

Subjects: Domestic fiction, Young men -- Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Young men, Social classes -- Fiction, City and town life in fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, Children of the rich, Middle West -- Fiction, City and town life -- Fiction, Social classes, Young men in fiction, City and town life, Social life and customs, Middle West in fiction, Bildungsromans, Social classes in fiction, Children of the rich -- Fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Children of the rich in fiction, Middle west, fiction

Description: Booth Tarkington grew up in Indianapolis, and attended Princeton University. He set much of his fiction in Indiana. Tarkington was one of the more popular novelists of his time, and in 1921 booksellers rated him in a poll as the most significant contemporary American author. -Wikipedia entry for Tarkington