Library of America: William Dean Howells Novels 1875-1886 (Binding Cloth, 1982)

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Condition
Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
Pages
1217
Type
Novel
Size
8 x 5 x 1.6 Inches.
Special Attributes
2nd Printing
Narrative Type
Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Modified Item
No
Weight
1.66 lbs.
ISBN
9780940450042
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0940450046
ISBN-13
9780940450042
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183264

Product Key Features

Book Title
William Dean Howells: Novels 1875-1886 (LOA #8) : A Foregone Conclusion / Indian Summer / a Modern Instance / the Rise of Silas Lapham
Number of Pages
1217 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1982
Topic
Classics, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
William Dean Howells
Book Series
Library of America William Dean Howells Edition Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
26.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
82-000112
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Series Volume Number
1
Synopsis
The four novels collected in this Library of America volume are among the classic works from the immensely productive career of America's most influential man of letters at the turn of the twentieth century. William Dean Howells was a champion of French and Russian realistic writers and a brilliant advocate of the most controversial American writers of his own time. In A Foregone Conclusion (1875), a young American painter roams through Europe for years before at last deciding to marry the woman who, he erroneously thinks, has been in love with an Italian priest turned agnostic. A Modern Instance (1882) offers an unflinching portrait of an unhappy marriage and ends with a hero barred by his perhaps overscrupulous conscience from marrying the divorced heroine. Once again personal dilemmas are seen as symptoms of the rapid displacement of older social and religious stabilities by opportunism and commercial progress. One of the most engaging of all his novels, Indian Summer (1885), is touched with the Jamesian glamour of romantic confusion among two American couples in Italy. Here Howells's realism takes a quietly humorous turn. Situations which might be exploited by another novelist for their theatrical or melodramatic possibilities are instead eroded by the often trivial or casual experiences of everyday living. Characteristically, Howells is opposed to exaggeration in the interest of discovering how people, despite the crises that beset them, manage to find their way. The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), Howells's best-known work, gives a brilliantly skeptical portrait of American business life and its perils, celebrating not the rise but the loss of fortune that makes possible the hero's recovery of his earlier integrity and happiness. "There are," remarked a contemporary reviewer, "thousands of Silas Laphams throughout the United States," and present-day readers might agree that there still are. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
LC Classification Number
PS2124

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