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The Rise of Silas Lapham (Signet Classics)

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The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortune in the paint business, but he lacks social standards, … see full wiki

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review by TStocksl. August 14, 2012

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

Character over class: winning the class war in a classless society

Less well known than the classics of his contemporaries, Howells' Silas Lapham stands as strong,vital, and timeless as Twain's Gilded Age and Dickens' Our Mutual Friend In fact, in comparison to those other novels, Silas Lapham may be the more powerfully American (even than the immortal Twain) and purely moral (even than the inimitable Dickens). Silas Lapham is a wealthy self-made man, still rough around the edges even as he flaunts his million dollar … more

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review by DevonCook. June 17, 2010

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

Mineral Paint and the Self Made Man

The novel follows the life of self made man Silas lapham and his family. Silas is a mineral paint man who constructed a paint industry for himself based on his unique paint type almost single handedly. Silas and his wife Persis and their daughters must maneuver socially during the early nineteenth century, a time where manners and graces are observed very carefully and factor significantly into a persons social statues. Silas has a hard time dealing with socialites as he … more

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