A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 3
| Language | en |
|---|---|
| First published | 2004-10-23 |
| Rights | Public domain in the USA. |
| Gutenberg ID | #3368 |
Description
"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.)