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A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4
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Part of William Dean Howells's realist novel, this follows a magazine editor and his wife who move to New York City, depicting class conflict and urban life in Gilded Age America. It will appeal to readers of nineteenth-century American literature and social realist fiction.
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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