The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

The Rise of Silas Lapham

William Dean Howells

428 pages first pub 1885 (editions)

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 th...

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