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Book Synopsis The Rise of Silas Lapham by : William Dean Howells
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.
Book Synopsis The Rise of Silas Lapham by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book The Rise of Silas Lapham written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Essays on The Rise of Silas Lapham by : Donald E. Pease
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.
Book Synopsis The Rise of Silas Lapham by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book The Rise of Silas Lapham written by William Dean Howells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Howells' maybe the most famous novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham, 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. 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. William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. He was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of Boston upper crust life set in the 1850s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.
Book Synopsis A Hazard of New Fortunes by : William Dean Howells
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.
Book Synopsis The Rise of Silas Lapham by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book The Rise of Silas Lapham written by William Dean Howells and published by Signet Classic. This book was released on 1957 with total page 328 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.
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Download or read book The Rise of Silas Lapham written by William Dean Howells and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Rise of Silas Lapham" is William Dean Howells 1885 novel which tells the story of its title character, who inherits his father's paint business and subsequently makes a great deal of money. Silas moves his family from rural Vermont to Boston in order to try and improve his social position. The consequences of which are both humorous and tragic. A sharp contrast is drawn between 'new' and 'old' money by William Dean Howells in this classic work, for which he is best known.
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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."
Book Synopsis A Modern Instance by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book A Modern Instance written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise of Silas Lapham by : William Dean Howells
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.
Book Synopsis A Century of Arts & Letters by : Louis Auchincloss
Download or read book A Century of Arts & Letters written by Louis Auchincloss and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its ranks limited to 250 members, the American Academy of Arts and Letters is counted among the foremost honors an American in the arts can receive. For this tribute to the Academy, eleven of its current members provide illuminating insights into those artists whom members have held in high esteem--and those they have not. 85 photos.
Book Synopsis The Rise of Silas Lapham by : William Dean Howells
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:
Book Synopsis Indian Summer by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book Indian Summer written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Chance Acquaintance by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book A Chance Acquaintance written by William Dean Howells and published by Belford Bros.. This book was released on 1876 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children written by William Dean Howells and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and readable account will appeal to all those interested in the Antarctic region in general.
Book Synopsis Criticism and Fiction by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book Criticism and Fiction written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM (Unabridged) by : William Dean Howells
Download or read book THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM (Unabridged) written by William Dean Howells and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In Howells' maybe the most famous novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham, 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. 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. William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. He was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of Boston upper crust life set in the 1850s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.