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Considered by many to be Howells' best novel. He knew the Gilded Age First Hand and Second hand
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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.
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“The first great domestic novelist of American life.”
-Alfred Kazin
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A Hazard of New Fortunes
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Signet Classics March 1965, 1965
ISBN 10: 0451506413
ISBN 13: 9780451506412
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