The Rise of Silas Lapham
A Literature, 19th Century, American book. Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a...
“Let fiction cease to lie about life; let it portray men and women as they are, actuated by the motives and the passions in the measure we all know.”—William Dean HowellsThe Rise of Silas Lapham, first published in book form in 1885, was the first important novel to center on the American businessman and the first to treat its theme with a realism that was to foreshadow the work of modern writers. In his story of Silas Lapham—one of the millionaires who flourished with the expanding industrialization of the post-Civil War years—William Dean Howells probed the moral and social conflicts that...
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- ISBN: 9780451528223 / 451528220
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Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world. William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham // It's easy enough to be sensible for other people. But when it comes to myself, there I am! Especially, when I want to do what I oughtn't so much that it seems as if doing what I didn't want to do MUST be doing what I ought! William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham // ...I dare say if you'd asked him plumply what he meant in regard to the young lady, he would have told you - if he knew.''Why, don't you think he does know, Bromfield?''I'm not at all sure he does. You women think that because a young man dangles after a girl, or girls, he's attached to them. It doesn't at all follow. He dangles because he must, and doesn't know what to do with his time, and because they seem to like it. I dare say that Tom has dangled a good deal in this instance because there was nobody else in town. William Dean Howells, The Rise...
This novel twins the marriage plot with the rise and fall of a self-made paint magnate. Howell's was doing something ahead of his time, investigating and celebrating the American businessman. The story runs very dry at points. Howells is much better writing about Silas than the thin love triangle, with its extremely obvious complications,... Free download available at Project Gutenberg. I had to read the first half of this story for an English class but something compelled me to finish it. I'm not sure why because I didn't really like many of the characters, particularly Mrs Corey, Nanny Corey, Milton Rogers, Persis Lapham, and Irene Lapham. Silas is a character I went back and forth on. The point is that throughout...
