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9780140390308
Rise of Silas Lapham
by Howells, William Dean, Vanderbilt, Kermit, Vanderbilt, Kermit
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- ISBN-13: 9780140390308
- ISBN: 0140390308
- Publication Date: 1983
- Publisher: Penguin USA
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Silas Lapham is a rough-hewn entrepreneur who has made his fortune in mineral paint. Socially ambitious for their daughters, Lapham and his wife encourage the suit of Tom Corey, son of an aristocratic Boston family, whose own parents are appalled by his consorting with vulgar upstarts. But which Lapham girl does Tom really love: the pretty blonde Irene or her bookish sister Penelope? As the romantic confusion is sorted out, Lapham suffers calamities that threaten both his financial and personal integrity. His rise is ultimately a moral one. The first major American novel to centre on a businessman, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) explores the capitalist ethos of the American Gilded Age. It is also a brilliant novel of manners that shows the comic confrontation of old wealth and new riches.Howells, William Dean is the author of 'Rise of Silas Lapham', published 1983 under ISBN 9780140390308 and ISBN 0140390308.
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