[Gutenberg 154] • The Rise of Silas Lapham
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- Authors
- Howells, William Dean
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Tags
- socialites -- fiction , domestic fiction , psychological fiction , classics , businessmen -- fiction , rich people -- fiction , boston (mass.) -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9780140390308
- Date
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.29 MB
- Lang
- en
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.