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The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells · 1884 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortune in the paint business, but he lacks social standards, which he tries to attain through his daughter's marriage to the aristocratic Corey family. Silas' morality does not fail him. He loses his… Shares: Businessmen, Domestic fiction

MAIN STREET Sinclair Lewis · 1634 · ★ 3.8 · 447p · ≈ 14h · Demanding The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Middle West. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to the ways of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. This groundbreaking novel attacks conformism, commercialism, moneygrubbing, and the decline in what Lewis saw as the American ideals of freedom and respect for… Shares: Businessmen, Domestic fiction

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