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April 19th, 2009 at 10:43 am David Frum | 2 Comments |

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I have just posted a new short book note, this on William Dean Howells’ The Rise of Silas Lapham, in the bookshelf section of NewMajority. There are now almost 130 of these mini-essays. These essays should be especially valuable I think to the desperate high school or college student struggling to finish an unwanted English or political science assignment. But I hope even the unassigned will find them interesting – please come take a look.

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  • ottovbvs // Apr 20, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Haven’t read this for years. But you’ve sparked my interest I’ll read it again. From memory it was an ok novel of manners but not in the league of Wharton or James. If you want a business novel of the era I recommend both The Financier and The Titan by Dreiser. Don’t bother with the third novel of the trilogy The Stoic, very tedious. But the first two novels which are about money, power, sex, class, art and politics in first Philadelphia and then Chicago are enthralling. A somewhat idiosyncratic style but once you get into it superb.

  • A.B. // Apr 21, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    Hey, thanks! I wouldn’t have noticed. February (and Dickens, I’m guessing) will keep me busy in airports for months. And I mean that in grateful way.

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