# The Rise of Silas Lapham

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- Book: [The Rise of Silas Lapham](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-dean-howells/the-rise-of-silas-lapham) ([The Rise of Silas Lapham.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-dean-howells/the-rise-of-silas-lapham.md))
- Authors: [William Dean Howells](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-dean-howells), [Louis Auchincloss](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-auchincloss), [Jason Courtmanche](https://www.bookquiver.com/jason-courtmanche), [Kermit Vanderbilt](https://www.bookquiver.com/kermit-vanderbilt)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4039-030-8
- Pages: 400
- Published: 1983-04-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...