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Already, in the third decade of the nineteenth century, the
settlers in the valley of Leatherwood Creek had opened the primeval
forest to their fields of corn and tobacco on the fertile slopes
and rich bottom-lands. The stream had its name from the bush
growing on its banks, which with its tough and pliable bark served
many uses of leather among the pioneers; they made parts of their
harness with it, and the thongs which lifted their door-latches, or
tied their shoes, or held their working clothes together. The name
passed to the settlement, and then it passed to the man, who came
and went there in mystery and obloquy, and remained lastingly famed
in the annals of the region as the Leatherwood God.
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The Rise of Silas Lapham (Paperback)
William D. Howells; Edited by Kermit Vanderbilt; Introduction by Kermit Vanderbilt
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R488
R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
Save R55 (11%)
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William Dean Howells's 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 business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston, where they awkwardly attempt to break into Brahmin society. Silas, greedy for wealth as well as prestige, brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy, and the family is forced to return to Vermont, financially ruined but morally renewed. As Kermit Vanderbilt points out in his Introduction, the novel focuses on important themes in the American literary tradition: the efficacy of self-help and determination, the ambiguous benefits of social and economic progress, and the continual contradiction between urban and pastoral values.
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The Mouse-Trap
William D. Howells
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Discovery Miles 4 490
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