A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 3 by William Dean Howells

"A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 3" by William Dean Howells is a novel published in 1889. When Basil March moves from Boston to New York to launch a literary magazine, he finds himself caught between conflicting worlds. His staff includes a socialist German immigrant, a pro-slavery Southerner, and an anti-union millionaire backer whose views inevitably clash. As tensions escalate, a streetcar strike erupts into violence, forcing March and those around him to confront the brutal realities of class conflict in Gilded Age America. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
Title A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 3
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hazard_of_New_Fortunes
Credits Produced by David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 79.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Subject City and town life -- Fiction
Subject Domestic fiction
Subject Married people -- Fiction
Subject Social classes -- Fiction
Subject Middle-aged persons -- Fiction
Subject Moving, Household -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 3368
Release Date
Last Update Jan 8, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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