A Hazard of New Fortunes PDF William Dean Howells

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Never that strong on literary form, letting his talents for physical detail, characterization, and good talk carry him through, Howells turned this weakness into a virtue: This time he seemed willing to trust his stubborn resistance to the conventions of romantic fiction, as an experiment. While he had no shortage of European models for city novels (Balzac, Dickens, Perez Galdos, Dostoevsky), he had virtually no American precedents from which to draw. Besides, New York was a new kind of city, one without the history and social stratifications of a European metropolis.

 

Part one, the first six chapters, is the justly celebrated section on the Marches’ house hunting. Anyone who has ever searched for an apartment in New York cannot help smiling at how unchanged the dynamic is, how brilliantly Howells caught the status strivings and indignities and endless scaling downward of expectations to fit the market realities. It i

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