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The Rise of Silas Lapham

William Dean Howells · 1885

Original text in English.

A middle class enriched within a single generation clashes with the old families of Boston. The novel seats them at the same table and listens to what one hears when the other speaks.

Novel · 27 parts · about 129 000 words · about 9 h 19 of reading

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Contents

  1. I33 min
  2. II23 min
  3. III14 min
  4. IV20 min
  5. V15 min
  6. VI18 min
  7. VII14 min
  8. VIII23 min
  9. IX26 min
  10. X17 min
  11. XI29 min
  12. XII25 min
  13. XIII23 min
  14. XIV35 min
  15. XV8 min
  16. XVI13 min
  17. XVII14 min
  18. XVIII15 min
  19. XIX22 min
  20. XX20 min
  21. XXI15 min
  22. XXII8 min
  23. XXIII22 min
  24. XXIV24 min
  25. XXV29 min
  26. XXVI22 min
  27. XXVII30 min

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William Dean Howells († 1920): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 154). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.

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