| 词条 | The Rolling Years |
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| name = The Rolling Years | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:TheRollingYears.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Agnes Sligh Turnbull | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = The Macmillan Company | release_date = 1936 | media_type = Print (hardback) | pages = 436 | isbn = | oclc = 17316163 | preceded_by = | followed_by = Remember the End }} The Rolling Years is the first novel by the American writer Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1888–1982) and it is set in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, just east of Pittsburgh. It is a family chronicle (1852–1910) of three generations of Scottish-American Presbyterians in rural Western Pennsylvania and their struggles to maintain their strict faith. The first generation is Daniel and Sarah McDowell, a farm couple. Sarah bears 12 children (of whom five survive) to her dour Calvinistic husband; her bitterness about her repeated, difficult confinements is effectively shown. The second generation is about their children, David and Jeannie. David moves to Pittsburgh where he becomes a judge. Jeannie marries a minister who has been serving as the local school teacher to earn money to complete his education. Jeannie's daughter, Constance, represents the third generation. She becomes a school teacher and struggles to find her place in a changing world. The novel dramatizes the gradual weakening of the strict Calvinism of the Scottish immigrants in an increasingly secular society. References
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