The Rise of Silas Lapham

Name: The Rise of Silas Lapham
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: William D. Howells
ISBN: 9780192823557

William D. Howells

07/11/1996
Oxford Paperbacks

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Rise of Silas Lapham par William D. Howells

Résumé

A major American novel centring on a business man, "The Rise of Silas Lapham" (1885), explores the capitalist ethos of the American Gilded Age. It is also a novel of manners that shows the comic confrontation of old wealth and new riches. This edition, reprints the text, and offers the full explanatory notes.