In a midland city choked by its own smoke, the self-made magnate James Sheridan means to make his sons into builders like himself. His youngest, Bibbs, sickly and poetic, wants only to write, and he finds an ally in Mary Vertrees, the daughter of an old family whose fortune has faded next door.
The first novel in Tarkington’s Growth trilogy, a shrewd portrait of American bigness and the price paid for it. Download the free EPUB.