品牌：William Dean Howells
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：400 页码
·出版日：1983年
·ISBN：0140390308
·条码：9780140390308
·装帧：平装
内容简介
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William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age. After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston, where they awkwardly attempt to break into Brahmin society. Silas, greedy for wealth as well as prestige, brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy, and the family is forced to return to Vermont, financially ruined but morally renewed. As Kermit Vanderbilt points out in his introduction, the novel focuses on important themes in the American literary tradition: the efficacy of self-help and determination, the ambiguous benefits of social and economic progress, and the continual contradiction between urban and pastoral values.
作者简介
William Dean Howells was born in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, on 1 March 1837. Reporter, author and editor, he also served as American consul in Venice from 1861-1865. He was dedicated to the development of a new literature of naturalism and literary realism, and helped to spread an awareness of such writers as Tolstoy, Ibsen, and Henry James. He was also a staunch critic of racism, and was a founder member of the NAACP. Howells died in New York City on May 11, 1920.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
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