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A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 2
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The second volume of Howells's realist novel continues the story of editor Basil March and the New York magazine that draws together conflicting social classes in Gilded Age America. It suits readers of nineteenth-century American literature and Gilded Age social realism.
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, playwright, and diplomat, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria, and the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", which was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name.
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