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Interviews | October 21, 2009

Jill Owens: IMG The Powells.com Interview with Sam Savage

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samsavageSam Savage's first novel, Firmin, chronicled the coming-of-age misadventures of a very literate rat living in a bookstore in Boston's Scollay Square. Garnering praise from authors and... Continue »
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    The Cry of the Sloth

    Sam Savage

The Rise of Silas Lapham

by William Dea Howells

The Rise of Silas Lapham Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

First published in book form in 1885, this timeless epic of a self-made man was the first important novel to center on the American businessman. Howells's Silas Lapham is a man of conscience who realizes his folly, but who is also an ambitious man who lets his aspirations lead him to hazard his fortune and his family's happiness for status in a society that would never accept him.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780451528223
Introduction:
Auchincloss, Louis
Publisher:
Signet Classics
Introduction:
Auchincloss, Louis
Author:
Howells, William Dean
Author:
Auchincloss, Louis
Author:
Moore, Harry T.
Location:
New York
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Boston (Mass.)
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Businessmen
Subject:
Boston
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Rich people
Subject:
Socialites
Subject:
General Fiction
Publication Date:
March 2002
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
6.74x4.24x.69 in. .39 lbs.
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