The Cliff-Dwellers

Name: The Cliff-Dwellers
Author: Henry Blake Fuller

by Henry Blake Fuller

Satirical novel depicting Chicago's aspiring social-climbing apartment dwellers during the Gilded Age

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Henry Blake Fuller

Henry Blake Fuller was a pioneering Chicago realist whose The Cliff-Dwellers was one of the first American urban novels set in a skyscraper. He also wrote witty cosmopolitan fiction set in Italy.

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