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The Rise of Silas Lapham (Oxford World's Classics)
The Rise of Silas Lapham - Oxford World's Classics
Author: William Dean Howells, John W. Crowley
The first major American novel to center 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. This edition, which reprints the most authoritative text, also offers the fullest Explanato...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780192823557
ISBN-10: 0192823558
Publication Date: 12/12/1996
Pages: 390
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Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (T)
Book Type: Paperback
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