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The Turmoil is a 1915 novel by American author Booth Tarkington. [1] [2] Written when Tarkington was about 50, it became a #1 bestseller. It deals with the transformation of idealized small town life and the relationship of a father and son. [3] It received favorable reviews from critics.
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Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner , John Updike , and Colson Whitehead .
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The name Badroulbadour also appears in the novels The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, and The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington (as Princess Bedrulbudour), and Come Dance with Me by Russell Hoban. Hoban also mentions Badoura as the name of an Arabian princess in The Arabian Nights .
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The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington; A Far Country by Winston Churchill; Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton Porter; Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter; K by Mary Roberts Rinehart; Jaffery by William J. Locke; Felix O'Day by F. Hopkinson Smith; The Harbor by Ernest Poole; The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey; Angela's Business by Henry Sydnor ...
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington, the second in his Growth trilogy after The Turmoil (1915) and before The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In 1925, it was adapted into the silent film Pampered Youth directed by David Smith.