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The Rise of Silas Lapham
by Howells, William Dean
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Perennial Classics/Harper & Row Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. First published in 1885--New York Times at that time wrote that "the great American novel" had at last been written. About a self-made Yankee millionaire's rise and fall against a richly detailed background of upper-class life in late nineteenth-century Boston. Introduction by Everett Carter. Binding of blue cloth with sharp and bright gilt titles, bump to upper edge near spine, otherwise very clean and unmarked, no edgewear. Bookplate on paste-down. Internals also very clean and unmarked. Bright generally clean jacket with illustration of Silas Lapham on front, looking very 'successful'. Edges of front cover, on the white background, are lightly discolored . light wear to extremities, with an eight inch closed tear to top edge. Not price-clipped. 333 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. Harper & Row, NY 1965.
Synopsis
William Dean Howells was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on March 1, 1837. His father was a printer and newspaperman, and the family moved from town to town. Howells went to school where he could. As a boy he began learning the printer’s skill. By the time he was in his teens he was setting type for his own verse. Between 1856 and 1861 he worked as a reporter for the Ohio State Journal . About this time his poems began to appear in the Atlantic Monthly . His campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln, compiled in 1860, prompted the administration to offer him the consulship at Venice, a post he held from 1861 to 1865. He married Elinor Gertrude Meade, a young woman from Vermont, in 1862 Paris. On his return to the United States in 1865, Howells worked in New York before going to Boston as assistant to James T. Fields of The Atlantic Monthly . In 1871 he became editor-in-chief of the magazine. In this position he worked with many young writers, among them Mark Twain and Henry James, both of whom became his close friends. His first novel, Their Wedding Journey , appeared in 1872. The Rise of Silas Lapham was serialized in Century Magazine before it was published in book form in 1885. A Hazard of New Fortunes was published five years later. His position as critic, writer, and enthusiastic exponent of the new realism earned William Dean Howells the respected title of Dean of American Letters. He died in 1920.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012026
- Title
- The Rise of Silas Lapham
- Author
- Howells, William Dean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Perennial Classics/Harper & Row Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 12mo - over 6
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS; AMERICA, 19TH CENTURY; MILLIONAIRES; UPPER CLASS; LITERATURE, AMERICAN;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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