The Rise of Silas Lapham
Book Details
Author(s)
Howells, William Dean
Publisher
SMK Books
ISBN / ASIN
1604596880
ISBN-13
9781604596885
Availability
In Stock.
Sales Rank
#1,269,435
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
The Rise of Silas Lapham is about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches. Silas earns a fortune in the paint business, but he lacks social standards, and morals, which he tries to attain through his daughter's marriage to the aristocratic Corey family, and is successful. Silas's morality does not fail him. He loses his money but is able to make the right moral decision when his partner proposes the unethical selling of the mills
