![]() The author was a friend of Mark Twain, and it’s easy to imagine the two writers inspiring each other. ![]() Howells was celebrated in his day for telling it like it was, yet he managed to describe even the most prosaic of business transactions with grace, economy and wit. This is an account of the life of a late-19th century American businessman and his family. Plenty happens in The Rise of Silas Lapham, and yet the particulars are so quotidian that a summary is likely to sound dull. ![]() To relegate such a rich and humane work to a state of graceful neglect is a loss that’s almost criminal. Copies sit there on the library shelf, unmoving and unread. Its classic status clings to it the way verdigris adheres to a bronze statue. ![]() This is one of those novels whose title vaguely rings a bell, like Zuleika Dobson or Ethan Frome. Don't Let the Dust Bury This American Masterwork ![]()
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