The Turmoil: A Novel

By: Tarkington, Booth

The smoke is like the bad breath of a giant panting for more and more riches. He gets them and pants the fiercer, smelling and swelling prodigiously. He has a voice, a hoarse voice, hot and rapacious trained to one tune: "Wealth I will get Wealth I will make Wealth I will sell Wealth for more Wealth My house shall be dirty, my garment shall be dirty, and I will foul my neighbor so that he cannot be clean but I will get Wealth There shall be no clean thing about me: my wife shall be dirty and my child shall be dirty, but I will get Wealth " And yet it is not wealth that he is so greedy for: what the giant really wants is hasty riches. To get these he squanders wealth upon the four winds, for wealth is in the smoke.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08JVV9VLZ
• ISBN13: 9798688698329
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"