The Rise of Silas Lapham: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Rise of Silas Lapham, credited to William Dean Howells, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells. The Rise of Silas Lapham is the most widely read of W.D. Howells’ novels. An example of literary realism, the story is about a farmer (Silas Lapham) who launches a very successful paint business, and moves his family up the social ladder of Boston. Lapham, however, is not one of the new types of American businessman, the ruthless plutocrat, rather he is the old-fashioned trustworthy Yankee trader, and the story deals with how he fares in the industrial capitalist environment. It is also a novel of manners, telling the story of the courtship of a daughter, and the difficulties the family deals with in attempting to move from one social class to another. (Summary by Margaret Espaillat)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Rise of Silas Lapham
• Author credits: William Dean Howells
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 12:35:38

Catalogue topics

• realism
• manners
• fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 42:52
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 30:33
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 19:32
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 27:20
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 21:18
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 24:19
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 18:04
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 30:22
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 36:56
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 23:09
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 36:49
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 34:09
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 31:17
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 43:59
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 9:29
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 18:27
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 19:36
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 19:05
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 30:00
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 25:40
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 17:52
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 10:17
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 31:13
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 34:51

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