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<p>Basil March jumps at the chance to leave his boring job to become the founding editor of a new magazine. But this also means that he must leave comfortable Boston for the confusion and chaos of 1890s New York.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- William Dean Howells
- First published
- 1707
- Pages
- 444
- Publisher
- Signet Classics, Penguin USA, Inc., Dutton
- Editions
- 100
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781548319618
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“"Now you think this thing over, March, and let me know the last of next week," said Fulkerson.”
**William Dean Howells** (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of *The Atlantic Monthly*, as well as for the novels *The Rise of Silas Lapham* and *A Traveler from Altruria*, and the Christmas story *Christmas Every Day*, which was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name.
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