The rise of Silas Lapham / by William Dean Howells
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T15:48:08Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T15:48:08Z |
| dc.date.created | 1885 |
| dc.date.issued | 1996-02-23 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2099 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2099 |
| dc.description.abstract | First published in 1885. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 756 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.isreplacedby | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3157 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- United States -- 19th century |
| dc.title | The rise of Silas Lapham / by William Dean Howells |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 774608 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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<text> <front> <tPage> <dTitle type=main>The Rise of Silas Lapham</dTitle> <byLine>by <dAuthor>William Dean Howells</dAuthor> </byLine> </tPage> </front> <body> <div type='chapter' id=C1> <head>I.</head> <p>WHEN Bartley Hubbard went to interview Silas Lapham for the &odq;Solid Men of Boston&cdq; series, which he undertook to finish up in The Events, after he replaced their original projector on that newspaper, Lapham received him in his private office by previous appointment. <p>&odq;Walk right in!&cdq; he called out to the journalist, whom he caught sight of through the door of the counting-room. <p>He did not rise from the desk at which he was writing, but he gave Bartley his left hand for welcome, and he rolled his large head in the direction of a vacant chair. &odq;Sit down! I'll he with you in just half a minute.&cdq; <p>&odq;Take your time,&cdq; said Bartley, with the ease he instantly felt. &odq;I'm in no hurry.&cdq; He took a note-book . . .
