USA: Signet Classics, 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Paperback in Very Good Condition. With a new Introduction by Louis Auchincloss. Originally published in book form in 1885, this was the first book to deal with the American businessman and the first to treat its theme with realism, foreshadowing the work of modern writers. Silas Lapham was a self-made man and a millionaire in the post-Civil War era; the story explores his moral and social conflicts as he tries to break into Boston's Old Guard. Gently used clean and unmarked paperback, tight and square binding. Pages have no markings of any kind. Faint wear to cover edges. 368 pages. 4.25 x 6,75. 2002, Signet Classics, USA.

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William Dean Howells was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on March 1, 1837. His father was a printer and newspaperman, and the family moved from town to town. Howells went to school where he could. As a boy he began learning the printer’s skill. By the time he was in his teens he was setting type for his own verse. Between 1856 and 1861 he worked as a reporter for the Ohio State Journal . About this time his poems began to appear in the Atlantic Monthly . His campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln, compiled in 1860, prompted the administration to offer him the consulship at Venice, a post he held from 1861 to 1865. He married Elinor Gertrude Meade, a young woman from Vermont, in 1862 Paris. On his return to the United States in 1865, Howells worked in New York before going to Boston as assistant to James T. Fields of The Atlantic Monthly . In 1871 he became editor-in-chief of the magazine. In this position he worked with many young writers, among them Mark Twain and Henry James, both of whom became his close friends. His first novel, Their Wedding Journey , appeared in 1872. The Rise of Silas Lapham was serialized in Century Magazine before it was published in book form in 1885. A Hazard of New Fortunes was published five years later. His position as critic, writer, and enthusiastic exponent of the new realism earned William Dean Howells the respected title of Dean of American Letters. He died in 1920.

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Bookseller: The Parnassus BookShop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 022585
Title: The Rise of Silas Lapham
Author: HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0451528220
ISBN 13: 9780451528223
Publisher: Signet Classics
Place of Publication: USA
Date Published: 2002
Size: 12mo - over 6?" - 7?"
Keywords: CLASSICS FICTIONAL CLASSIC
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction. Classics;
X weight: 0 oz

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