Rise of Silas Lapham (Riverside editions)

William Dean Howells

ISBN 10: 0395051266 / ISBN 13: 9780395051269

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company June 1957, 1957

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rise of Silas Lapham (Riverside editions)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company June 1957
• Publication Date: 1957
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395051266
• ISBN 13: 9780395051269
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Acceptable
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Paperback. Edited by Edwin H. Cady. Ex-Library. Library labels on spine foot and front endpaper. Library barcode label on half-title page. Library stamps on title pages and page block. Laminated covers. Covers and spine are faded. A few marks and scores on covers. Price pencilled on front cover. Minor wear on leading corners. One or two marks on page block. Text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. AF

From the Publisher

The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) is Howell’s best-known work, and this elegant tale of Boston society and manners is rightly regarded as a subtle classic of its time. Silas Lapham inherits his father’s paint business, from which he makes a great deal of money, and moves his family from rural Vermont to cosmopolitan Boston. Attempting to break into the city’s sophisticated society he becomes bent on the acquisition of both money and social position. Howells contrasts "old" and "new" money, presenting the representatives of both sympathetically and portraying the attempts of the self-made man to break into the world inhabited by those from "established" families with humour and delicacy.