Remember the End

Remember the End is the second novel by the American writer Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1888–1982) and it is set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the 1890s to World War I.

Remember the End

First edition
Author	Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Language	English
Publisher	The Macmillan Company
Publication date	1938
Publication place	USA
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	468
OCLC	185415
Preceded by	The Rolling Years
Followed by	The Day Must Dawn

The protagonist Alex MacTay is a Scotsman who is called to be a poet, but instead emigrates to America. On a farm in Western Pennsylvania he forms a partnership in a coal mine, marries the farmer's daughter, and suppresses his aesthetic interests. By age 34 he owns two coal mines and has made his first million, but at the cost of deeply wounding his wife and alienating his only son. Sympathetically portrayed, he typifies the strengths and weaknesses of the great tycoons of the period, such as his own model, Andrew Carnegie. During the 1907 depression he gets control of a steel mill, but then things go sour for MacTay.

References

• Turnbull, Agnes Sligh (1938). Remember the End. New York: The Macmillan Company.
• Demarest, David P. (1976). From These Hills, From These Valleys: Selected Fiction about Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1123-X.
• Richards, Samuel J. "Middlebrow Bestseller Obscured: Reconsidering Agnes Sligh Turnbull's Westmoreland Novels," Appalachian Journal 52:1-2 (2024–2025): 78–95.