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Rise of Silas Lapham
Rise of Silas Lapham
Author: William Dean Howells
When this was first published in 1885, the New York Times reported that "the great American novel" had at last been written. A realistic chronicle of a businessman's rise and fall against a richly detailed background of upper-class life in late nineteenth-century Boston.
ISBN: 143927
Publication Date: 1965
Pages: 333
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Publisher: Harper & Row
Book Type: Paperback
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This book approaches the rise and fall of a man in an era where money and a good family name mean everything. A very good coming of age novel.


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