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  <title><![CDATA[A Hazard of New Fortunes (Modern Library Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Centering on a conflict between a self-made millionaire and an idealistic reformer in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York, &lt;b&gt;A Hazard of New Fortunes &lt;/b&gt;insightfully renders the complexities of the American experience at a time of great social and economic upheaval and transformation. In its depiction of wealth, poverty, and New York City life, it remains a strikingly contemporary work.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Reproduced here is the authoritative Indiana University Press Edition edited and annotated by David J. Nordloh, with full scholarly commentary and extensive textual apparatus.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Dean Howells]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written in 1890, this is generally regarded as one of the best, if not the best, portrayals of middle class life in New York City in the late 19th Century.<br/><br/>What I found most interesting about this novel is Howells' principal female character; they seem quite modern to me.  Isabel March is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33956206">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[perhaps it does not quite deserve the five star rating, but out of all the gilded age novels we read in my 'American Scene' class, this one was the most enjoyable.   the march's are sympathetic middle class characters newly imported into a new york social scene of similarly bewildered (but not quite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2308373">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 21 17:38:08 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was the epitome of realism and very long.  Although I appreciate it for the genre and the aspects of realism which are fascinating, I would definitely not recommend it to someone and would never have read it it not for it being assigned in my Amercan lit class.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, it's too long and there's a reason why Howells became a whipping boy of the modernists, but this book still really captures a moment and cross section of late 19th C America.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Slow at points. Lots of characters. Anticlimactic. ]]></body>
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    <review id="66309474">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 1987</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Published five years after the Rise of Silas Lapham, a Hazard of New Fortunes is perhaps the author's better book.  Between the two, Howells positions himself as the first full-length novelist of American life, if not the first great American novelist!]]></body>
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    <review id="19298675">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though not as well known as The Rise of Silas Lapham, this book does depict 19th C. NYC in you typical realist fashion. It is not as brutal as Zola can be, it is an entertaining read.]]></body>
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    <review id="19986071">
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    <body><![CDATA[Who knew fortunes could be so hazardous!?  A compelling story of urbanization, opportunity, and opportunism in turn-of-the-century New York City.]]></body>
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    <review id="456654">
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually, 2 1/2 - see, I don't LOVE all 19th century literature. This one was written in 1890 and it is just too darn boring. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read it in college, but I enjoyed it. I bought a new copy to re-read someday]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I realy enjoyed this novel.  Howells wit and skill as a writer are marvelous.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[v. into turn of century realist literature lately.  blame the dissertation.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How did I ever come across this book?. I had no idea I even have it!]]></body>
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    <review id="12867911">
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    <body><![CDATA[Really good. For late nineteenth century American literature...]]></body>
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