Jalna — Mazo de la Roche

Jalna, the first of the famed Jalna series, was a spectacular success from the moment of publication. Today the names Jalna and Mazo de la Roche are synonymous and the Whiteoaks have become one of the great fictional families of our time.

The Jalna saga unfolds the lives and loves of the unforgettable family whose heart is centered in Jalna, the great, rambling mansion from which the series takes its name.
This first novel is the story of two marriages -- that of young Piers who has created a tumult by marrying without the family's consent...and of Eden, the poet, whose marriage to an outsider triggers a different, but equally powerful conflict...