The Rise of Silas Lapham by Kermit Vanderbilt, William Dean Howells

The Rise of Silas Lapham

Kermit Vanderbilt, William Dean Howells

368 pages first pub 1885 (view editions)

fiction classics challenging informative slow-paced
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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 th...

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