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Item Details
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THE CLIFF-DWELLERS
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| By: |
Henry Blake Fuller, Joseph Dimuro (Editor) |
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Paperback |
| List price:
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£22.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1551116456 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781551116457 |
| Publisher: |
BROADVIEW PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
7 May, 2010 |
| Pages: |
300 |
| Description: |
Presents a scathing portrayal of capitalism and its discontents in nineteenth-century Chicago. This edition - with its frenetic pace and many interrelated stories - remains a compelling document of Chicago's social history, as well as a searing indictment of modern American life at the close of the nineteenth century. |
| Synopsis: |
"The Cliff-Dwellers" is a scathing portrayal of capitalism and its discontents in nineteenth-century Chicago. This is the only edition available. "The Cliff-Dwellers" was the first American realist novel to use the rapidly developing city of Chicago as its setting. Henry B. Fuller's depiction of commercial greed, social climbing, and human depravity among the 'cliff-dwelling' residents and workers in the new Chicago skyscrapers shocked readers of the time, and influenced many American writers that followed. With its frenetic pace and many interrelated stories, it remains a compelling document of Chicago's social history, as well as a searing indictment of modern American life at the close of the nineteenth century. The extensive appendices to this edition include Fuller's literary criticism and his correspondence about the novel, reviews, and visual and historical materials on turn-of-the-century Chicago and literary realism. |
| Illustrations: |
29 illustrations |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
Broadview Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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