Edward Bumpus, uprooted from old Yankee certainties, ends up at fifty-five as gatekeeper of the vast Chippering Mill in the polyglot city of Hampton. His restless daughter Janet wants more than the narrow life of the mill town, and her search for it carries her through an affair with a mill agent and into the turmoil of a strike led by syndicalist agitators.
A 1917 novel of industrial unrest by the American Winston Churchill, once one of the most widely read novelists in the United States. Download the free EPUB.