A Hazard of New Fortunes (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Howells, William Dean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140439234 ISBN 13: 9780140439236

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2002

Synopsis

Set against the backdrop of New York at the end of the 19th century, this is the story of the conflict between a self-made millionaire and a fervent social revolutionary.
Howell's novel is both a vivid portrait of the realities of the American experience in an age of emerging social struggle, and a moving study of human relationships.

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Review:

"No one before Howells had thought to capture the teeming, heterogeneous, multifarious, high-tension city on a single great canvas. Against the variegated backdrop of New York City, Howells dramatizes the intellectual and spiritual conflicts of the democratic future." --Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

"The exactest and truest portrayal of New York and New York life ever written." --Mark Twain

"Simply prodigious."--Henry James

About the Author:

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) began writing poetry while on the staff of the Ohio State Journal. This was published in Atantic Monthly, which he later edited. He went on to write a biography of Lincoln, and established himself as a prominent literary critic and a successful novelist.

Phillip Lopate holds the Adams Chair at Hofstra University, where he is Professor of English. He is the author of several essay collections and two volumes of poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0140439234
• ISBN 13: 9780140439236
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480