Ending with the ruin of the title character by a railroad after he refuses to sell some property to Englishmen, for ten points, identify this novel about an entrepreneur, written by William Dean Howells.
At the beginning of this work, the title character shows a reporter a picture of his wife and daughters, and later comments to his wife that unless another character becomes interested in paint, he'll never get the chance to be interested in Irene. The minister David Sewell advises the title character on his daughters' romantic difficulties in this novel, which ends with the marriage of Penelope and Tom Corey. The destruction of the Back Bay house and its burning from an unextinguished fireplace add to the title character's financial problems. Ending with the ruin of the title character by a railroad after he refuses to sell some property to Englishmen, for ten points, identify this novel about an entrepreneur, written by William Dean Howells.
At the beginning of this work, the title character shows a reporter a picture of his wife and daughters, and later comments to his wife that unless another character becomes interested in paint, he'll never get the chance to be interested in Irene.
The Rise of Silas Lapham