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Book from the collections of university of michigan language english. His father was a newspaper editor and printer who moved frequently around ohio. Nicknamed the dean of american letters, he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the atlantic monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the christmas story christmas every day and the novel the rise of silas lapham. A recent meeting of a reading group of mine finally allowed me to make the time to read howells 1885 work, silas lapham. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
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