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The Rise of Silas Lapham

The Rise of Silas Lapham

The Rise of Silas Lapham
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The Rise of Silas Lapham

by William Dean Howells

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Signet Classics, March 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Used - Acceptable. Shelf and spine wear -- reader's copy. Pages yellowing from age.

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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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Title
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Author
William Dean Howells
Format/Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Acceptable
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Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0451518500
ISBN 13
9780451518507
Publisher
Signet Classics
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
March 1963
Pages
349

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