Novels, 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion; A Modern Instance; Indian Summer; The Rise of Silas Lapham (The Library of America Series Book 8)

Howells, William Dean [W.D.]

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Edité par The Library of America, 1982

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2nd printing. Includes publisher's slipcase. Minor scuffs on rear slipcase panel, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1982 Hard Cover. 1217 pp. 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. This edition is part of the Library of America series, published by a non-profit organization whose goal is to keep classic works of American literature and history in print as a way of preserving cultural heritage.…

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Titre
Novels, 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion; A Modern Instance; Indian Summer; The Rise of Silas Lapham (The Library of America Series Book 8)
Auteur
Howells, William Dean [W.D.]
Éditeur
The Library of America
Année de publication
1982
État de l'article
Near Fine
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Near Fine
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Hard Cover
Langue
anglais
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0940450046
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780940450042
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2nd Printing.
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33 onces
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5x1x8

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