The Penny family run iron furnaces in the wooded hills of Pennsylvania, and every so often a dark, stubborn, solitary Penny appears among them. The novel follows three of them across more than a century: a young ironmaster in the colonial forge country, his successor at the coming of the railroad, and a last, fastidious descendant at the end of the nineteenth century.
Hergesheimer’s 1917 novel, admired in its day for its polished style, traces how industry and temperament pass down a single family line. Download the free EPUB.