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The Rise of Silas Lapham

by William Dean Howells

ISBN13: 9781604596885
ISBN10: 1604596880

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The Rise of Silas Lapham is about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches. Silas earns a fortune in the paint business, but he lacks social standards, and morals, which he tries to attain through his daughter's marriage to the aristocratic Corey family, and is successful. Silas's morality does not fail him. He loses his money but is able to make the right moral decision when his partner proposes the unethical selling of the mills

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ISBN:: 9781604596885
Binding:: Trade Paperback
Publication date:: 02/18/2009
Publisher:: SMK Books
Language:: English
Pages:: 276
Height:: .62IN
Width:: 6.00IN
Thickness:: .62 in.
Number of Units:: 1
UPC Code:: 9781604596885
Author:: William Dean Howells
Subject:: Literature-A to Z