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The Rise of Silas Lapham by Don L. Cook, William Dean Howells

519 pages first pub 1885 (view editions) user-added

fiction classics challenging informative slow-paced
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William Dean Howells' 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 t...

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