A Hazard of New Fortunes (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Howells, William Dean; Dugdale, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192827022 ISBN 13: 9780192827029

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This novel was written in 1890 and is a panoramic novel of New York which dramatizes America's conflicting ideas and values in the late 19th century. The characters converge around the founding of a new magazine, the staff of which become involved in a strike.

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Centering on a conflict between a self-made millionaire and an idealistic reformer in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York, A Hazard of New Fortunes insightfully renders the complexities of the American experience at a time of great social and economic upheaval and transformation. In its depiction of wealth, poverty, and New York City life, it remains a strikingly contemporary work.
Reproduced here is the authoritative Indiana University Press Edition edited and annotated by David J. Nordloh, with full scholarly commentary and extensive textual apparatus.

From the Back Cover

“The first great domestic novelist of American life.”
-Alfred Kazin

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0192827022
• ISBN 13: 9780192827029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504
• Editor: Tanner Tony