The Rise of Silas Lapham (Penguin Classics)
William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham is a classic American novel about ambition, social mobility, and the challenges that accompany success. With its attention to personal choices and changing social values, it remains an important work of nineteenth-century literary fiction.
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The Rise of Silas Lapham is a classic work of American fiction by William Dean Howells.
The novel explores ambition, social change, and the pressures associated with rising success.
Its literary focus places personal experience within the broader context of American society.
This Penguin Classics edition presents Howells’s enduring contribution to nineteenth-century literature.
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