A Hazard of New Fortunes

✍ Scribed by Howells, William Dean

• Book ID: 110307346
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 319 KB
• Series: Penguin Classics
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781440672675

✦ Synopsis

Centering on a conflict between a self-made millionaire and an idealistic reformer in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York, A Hazard of New Fortunes 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.
Reproduced here is the authoritative Indiana University Press Edition edited and annotated by David J. Nordloh, with full scholarly commentary and extensive textual apparatus.