"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.)
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