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The rise of Silas Lapham : an authoritative text, composition and backgrounds, contemporary responses, criticism / William Dean Howells ; edited by Don L. Cook.
Van Pelt Library PS2025.R52 H6 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
- Series:
- Norton critical edition
- A Norton critical edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Rise of Silas Lapham.
- Howells, William Dean.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 519 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [1982]
- Summary:
- Silas Lapham is a rough-hewn entrepreneur who has made his fortune in mineral paint. Socially ambitious for their daughters, Lapham and his wife encourage the suit of Tom Corey, son of an aristocratic Boston family, whose own parents are appalled by his consorting with vulgar upstarts. But which Lapham girl does Tom really love: the pretty blonde Irene or her bookish sister Penelope? As the romantic confusion is sorted out, Lapham suffers calamities that threaten both his financial and personal integrity. His rise is ultimately a moral one. The first major American novel to centre on a businessman, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) explores the capitalist ethos of the American Gilded Age. It is also a brilliant novel of manners that shows the comic confrontation of old wealth and new riches.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 517-519.
- ISBN:
- 0393044335
- 0393091651
- OCLC:
- 6142648
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