The novel opens beneath a great tulip tree on a hilltop farm and follows the RoBards family into the growing city of New York. Fires gut the town, insurance companies fail, fortunes rise and collapse, and the marriages and quarrels of parents and children play out against the rebuilding of Manhattan.
A broad family chronicle from a popular 1920s novelist, for readers who like history seen from the parlour. Download the free EPUB.
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