Rise Of Sinclair Lewis 1920 1930

Author : James M. Hutchisson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271040851
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930 written by James M. Hutchisson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of Sinclair Lewis examines the making of Lewis's best-selling novels Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and Elmer Gantry--their sources, composition, publication, and subsequent critical reception. Drawing on thousands of pages of material from Lewis's notes, outlines, and drafts--most of it never before published--James M. Hutchisson shows how Lewis selected usable materials and shaped them, through his unique vision, into novels that reached and remained part of the American literary imagination. Hutchisson also describes for the first time how large a role was played by Lewis's wives, assistants, and publishers in determining the final shape of his books.

Author : James Hutchisson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780271025094
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930 written by James Hutchisson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.B9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elmer Gantry written by Sinclair Lewis and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-01-01T20:36:53Z with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmer Gantry isn’t suited to be a lawyer, so he becomes a preacher instead. Although he experiences a variety of failures, and even more successes, Gantry ultimately finds this new career path suits him very well indeed—despite his drinking and womanizing. Throughout his time as a preacher Gantry progresses through the hierarchies of the Baptist and Methodist churches, dabbles in revivalism and “New Thought,” and even experiments with politics, all the while emerging from scandals relatively unscathed and ready to move onward and upward once again. Sinclair Lewis published the satirical Elmer Gantry in 1927 much to the dismay of the religious community. It was denounced from the pulpit, banned by many, and even engendered threats of violence. Despite this—or perhaps because of it—it went on to become a massive success and the best selling novel of that year. One of the most savage satirical assaults against institutionalized religion and its hypocrisy in American literature, Elmer Gantry continues to be a window into a particularly important aspect of American history. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Job written by Sinclair Lewis and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1917 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English schoolboy is snatched into another world by the magician scientist Salaman, who forces him to brave underwater terrors in a quest for the priceless Mirrorstone.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Main Street written by Sinclair Lewis and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Milford grows up in a mid-sized town in Minnesota before moving to Chicago for college. After her education, during which she’s exposed to big-city life and culture, she moves to Minneapolis to work as a librarian. She soon meets Will Kennicott, a small-town doctor, and the two get married and move to Gopher Prairie, Kennicott’s home town. Carol, inspired by big-city ideas, soon begins chafing at the seeming quaintness and even backwardness of the townsfolk, and their conservative, self-satisfied way of life. She struggles to try to reform the town in her image, while finding meaning in the seeming cultural desert she’s found herself in and in her increasingly cold marriage. Gopher Prairie is a detailed, satirical take on small-town American life, modeled after Sauk Centre, the town in which Lewis himself grew up. The town is fully realized, with generations of inhabitants interacting in a complex web of village society. Its bitingly satirical portrayal made Main Street highly acclaimed by its contemporaries, though many thought the satirical take was perhaps a bit too dark and hopeless. The book’s celebration and condemnation of small town life make it a candidate for the title of the Great American Novel. Main Street was awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, but the decision was overturned by the prize’s Board of Trustees and awarded instead to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence. When Lewis went on to win the 1926 Pulitzer for Arrowsmith, he declined it—with the New York Times reporting that he did so because he was still angry at the Pulitzers for being denied the prize for Main Street. Despite the book’s snub at the Pulitzers, Lewis went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, with Main Street being cited as one of the reasons for his win.

Author : Mark Schorer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3072 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinclair Lewis: an American life written by Mark Schorer and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 3072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book The Man who Knew Coolidge written by Sinclair Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727334012
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Can't Happen Here written by Sinclair Lewis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fear-mongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Lewis's chilling, and yet prescient bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, a 'Professional Common Man', who promises the countries poor, angry voters that he will make America great again, but whose actions end up taking the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into authoritarianism, newspaper editor Doremus Jessup can't believe it will last - but is he right? What was once just a cautionary tale of liberal complacency in the face of populist tyranny, shows many signs of coming to pass just a few decades later.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book Arrowsmith written by Sinclair Lewis and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1925 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1925; Sinclair Lewis declined to accept it. The story of the career of a man of science.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986978538
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis written by Sinclair Lewis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst Sinclair Lewis s many remarkable novels are more than a hundred short stories which he wrote over forty-four years. Selected Short Stories contains those selected by Lewis himself and illustrates the wide range of his art and interest: tales of romantic fantasy or escape, melodramas of heroic or mock-heroic adventure, boy-meets-girl stories, satires of pretension and folly, and tales of isolation and loneliness. Lewis often played variations on themes more fully developed in his novels. Described by E.M. Forster: What Mr. Lewis has done for myself and thousands of others is to lodge a piece of a continent in our imagination. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.