A Hazard of New Fortunes

Name: A Hazard of New Fortunes
Author: William Dean Howells
ISBN: 9783849657499

by William Dean Howells

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No one can complain that in this story Mr. Howells has taken his type from the commonplace. It is a study of life in New York, and the author has brought together such a gallery of odd and strongly differentiated characters as could perhaps be found in no other city on the continent, while the conditions and phases of social life represented are not less distinctive and peculiar. The Marches, it is true, are from Boston, but they serve the purpose of external points of observation, whence to not

First published 1890546 pages

Category: Literature
Priority: Recommended
Author works: 3
Editions known: 100

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 818.409 s813.4[Fic]
Library of Congress (LCC): PS2025 H29 1965PS2025.F68 vol. 16PS2025.H3 Ha13PS2025.H3 Ha6

Subjects

American fiction (fictional works by one author)City and town lifeCity and town life -- FictionCity and town life in fictionClasses socialesCouples mariésDomestic fictionDéménagementFictionFiction, family life, generalHousehold MovingHousehold moving in fiction

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ISBN 9783849657499English

DATE DUE

First published1890

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