| The Rise of Silas Lapham: Nonsuch Classics Contributor(s): Dean Howells, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845880412 ISBN-13: 9781845880415 Publisher: Nonsuch Publishing OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: "The Rise of Silas Lapham" is Howell's best-known work, and this elegant tale of Boston society and manners is rightly regarded as a subtle classic of its time. Silas Lapham inherits his father's paint business, from which he makes a great deal of money, and moves his family from rural Vermont to cosmopolitan Boston. Attempting to break into the city's sophisticated society he becomes bent on the acquisition of both money and social position. Howells contrasts "old" and "new" money, presenting the representatives of both sympathetically and portraying the attempts of the self-made man to break into the world inhabited by those from "established" families with humor and delicacy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: PS2020 |
| Series: Nonsuch Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 5.04" W x 6.7" (0.76 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Rise of Silas Lapham is Howell's best-known work, and this elegant tale of Boston society and manners is rightly regarded as a subtle classic of its time. Silas Lapham inherits his father's paint business, from which he makes a great deal of money, and moves his family from rural Vermont to cosmopolitan Boston. Attempting to break into the city's sophisticated society he becomes bent on the acquisition of both money and social position. Howells contrasts "old" and "new" money, presenting the representatives of both sympathetically and portraying the attempts of the self-made man to break into the world inhabited by those from "established" families with humor and delicacy. |