A major American novel centring on a business man, "The Rise of Silas Lapham" (1885), explores the capitalist ethos of the American Gilded Age. It is also a novel of manners that shows the comic confrontation of old wealth and new riches. This edition, reprints the text, and offers the full explanatory notes.
- ISBN10 0192823558
- ISBN13 9780192823557
- Publish Date 7 November 1996 (first published 31 December 1957)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 September 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Oxford Paperbacks
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 434
- Language English