The Rise of Silas Lapham
(2012)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Start Publishing LLC, 2012
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (319 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9781625581914 MWT17698331, 1625581912 17698331
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
William Dean Howell's 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
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