The Rise Of Silas Lapham

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140390308
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Silas Lapham written by William Dean Howells and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-04-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age. After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston, where they awkwardly attempt to break into Brahmin society. Silas, greedy for wealth as well as prestige, brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy, and the family is forced to return to Vermont, financially ruined but morally renewed. As Kermit Vanderbilt points out in his introduction, the novel focuses on important themes in the American literary tradition: the efficacy of self-help and determination, the ambiguous benefits of social and economic progress, and the continual contradiction between urban and pastoral values. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698169883
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Silas Lapham written by William Dean Howells and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of Silas Lapham was the first important novel to center on the American businessman and the first to treat its theme with a realism that foreshadowed the work of modern writers. In his story of one of the millionaire industrialists who flourished in the post-Civil War years, William Dean Howells probes the moral and social conflicts that confront a self-made man trying to crash Boston’s old-guard aristocracy. Silas Lapham is a man of conscience who fully realizes his folly; but he is also an ambitious man who lets his aspirations lead him to risk both his fortune and his family’s happiness for status in a society that will never truly accept him. “His perceptions were sure, his integrity was absolute,” wrote Henry Seidel Canby of William Dean Howells, whom he credited as being “responsible for giving the American novel form.”

Author : Donald E. Pease
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521378987
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Essays on The Rise of Silas Lapham written by Donald E. Pease and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues the renewed importance of Howells's novel for an understanding of literature as a social force as well as a literary form.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.7F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hazard of New Fortunes written by William Dean Howells and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-03-28T06:39:24Z with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basil March jumps at the chance to leave his boring job to become the founding editor of a new magazine. But this also means that he must leave comfortable Boston for the confusion and chaos of 1890s New York. As March and his wife try to find a decent place to live, he also struggles to find contributors and readers. The Marches are quickly drawn into the tangled lives of their fellow New Yorkers: a bitter German socialist who lost his hand fighting for the Union in the Civil War, a colonel nostalgic for slavery, Bohemian artists, increasingly desperate workers on strike, a slick publicist, a starchy society family, and a wealthy farmer-turned-speculator who hurts those he loves most. Born in Ohio, William Dean Howells was a highly successful magazine editor before he became a full-time writer. He believed that this midlife novel, which draws on his own family’s experiences moving from Boston to New York, was his “most vital work.” Mark Twain, whom Howells helped early in his career, called A Hazard of New Fortunes “the exactest & truest portrayal of New York and New York life ever written … a great book.” This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : William Howells
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722991937
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Silas Lapham written by William Howells and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells. The Rise of Silas Lapham is a realist novel by William Dean Howells published in 1885. The story follows the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortune in the paint business, but he lacks social standards, which he tries to attain through his daughter's marriage into the aristocratic Corey family. Silas' morality does not fail him. He loses his money but makes the right moral decision when his partner proposes the unethical selling of the mills to English settlers. Howells is known to be the father of American realism, and a denouncer of the sentimental novel. The resolution of the love triangle of Irene Lapham, Tom Corey, and Penelope Lapham highlights Howells' rejection of the conventions of sentimental romantic novels as unrealistic and deceitful.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Signet Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780451518507
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Silas Lapham written by William Dean Howells and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1963-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The Rise of Silas Lapham reprints the text established by Walter J. Meserve and David J. Nordloh for A Selected Edition of W. D. Howells.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Rivercity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780891904564
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Silas Lapham written by William Dean Howells and published by Rivercity Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Rise of Silas Lapham" was the first important novel to center on the American businessman and the first to treat its theme with a realism that foreshadowed the work of modern writers. In his story of one of the millionaire industrialists who flourished in the post-Civil War years, William Dean Howells probes the moral and social conflicts that confront a self-made man trying to crash Boston's old-guard aristocracy. Silas Lapham is a man of conscience who fully realizes his folly; but he is also an ambitious man who lets his aspirations lead him to risk both his fortune and his family's happiness for status in a society that will never truly accept him. "His perceptions were sure, his integrity was absolute," wrote Henry Seidel Canby of William Dean Howells, whom he credited as being "responsible for giving the American novel form."

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877207375
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Silas Lapham written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The Rise of Silas Lapham reprints the text established by Walter J. Meserve and David J. Nordloh for A Selected Edition of W. D. Howells.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781437819038
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Silas Lapham written by William Dean Howells and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: