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Title: The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells, Louis Auchincloss, Dean William Howells ISBN: 0-451-52822-0 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: An Interesting Study.
Comment: Well, I can not say that W.D. Howells was another Nathaniel Hawthorne. But what I can say is that his "The Rise of Silas Lapham" is A LOT better than some books that were made famous (probably for political reasons). Do not expect the superb images and construction of Hawthorne. But what we CAN expect is a timeless message about society. At first Silas is a rich money grubbing monster. (Just think of Dickens' Scrooge.) He finds ways to cut his friends out of deals, alienates his family with the want of more money, and even gets his wife upset. Ah, but later things go bad, and he starts losing money. This is when the human side of him begins to show and he becomes a very sympathetic character. In my opinion, to enjoy this even more, you must assume that before the book opens, he WAS a good and decent man. Once he ran into immense wealth, he grew detestable. So while, this is not exactly a masterpiece, the degeneration of Silas and his return to humanity is ample material to carry this book and place it in the American Museum of Literature.
Rating: 5
Summary: Paint it red
Comment: William Dean Howells is an unjustly neglected American Renaissance author; his prose is more readable today than Clemmens, Hawthorne or Melville. His background as a journalist no doubt helps. The Lapham family is a delight to spend a couple of hundred pages with, as they interact and ultimately fall prey to Boston brahmin society. Silas Lapham is a self-made man who scores a killing in paint from his dad's farm; he becomes a self-unmade man. You get absorbed in the world Howells describes. Especially good reading on a plane.
Rating: 3
Summary: What does it profit a man to gain the world ?
Comment: Silas Lapham is a self-made man who despite having a fourtune is unable to break into the upper-crust of Society. This story chronicals how Silas and the entire Lapham family become the Beverly Hillbillies for the pre-TV world. In the end the families happiness can only happen by following the old saying of to thine own self be true.
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Title: McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris, Eric Solomon ISBN: 0451528913 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, Richard Lingeman ISBN: 0451527607 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0451527569 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Portable American Realism Reader (Viking Portable Library (Paper)) by James Nagel, Thomas Quirk, Tom Quirk ISBN: 0140268308 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Hazard of New Fortunes by Jr. Arthur Schlesinger, Everett Carter, William Dean Howells ISBN: 0375759271 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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