Sinclair Lewis Collection

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 : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinclair Lewis written by Mark Schorer and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard R. Lingeman
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873515412
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinclair Lewis written by Richard R. Lingeman and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this definitive biography of Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt), Lingeman presents an empathetic, absorbing, and balanced portrait of an eccentric alcoholic-workaholic whose novels and stories exploded shibboleths with a volatile mixture of caricature and realism. Drawing on newly uncovered correspondence, diaries, and criticism, Lingeman gives new life to this prairie Mercutio out of Sauk Centre, Minnesota.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ann Vickers written by Sinclair Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 592 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinclair Lewis Collection written by Sinclair Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete collection of Lewis's novels; memorabilia; working copy of Mark Schorer's biography; records of Sinclair Lewis Foundation; and photographs.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cass Timberlane written by Sinclair Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Cass Timberlane" by Sinclair Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7904 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinclair Lewis - Ultimate Collection written by Sinclair Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 7904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E-artnow presents to you the complete novels and the greatest short stories of the master of his craft and Nobel prize winner, Sinclair Lewis. This edition includes: Novels: Babbitt Free Air Main Street The Trail of the Hawk The Innocents The Job Our Mr. Wrenn Arrowsmith Mantrap Elmer Gantry The Man Who Knew Coolidge Dodsworth Ann Vickers Work of Art It Can't Happen Here The Prodigal Parents Bethel Merriday Gideon Planish Cass Timberlane Kingsblood Royal World So Wide Short Stories: Things Moths in the Arc Light The Willow Walk Nature, Inc. The Cat of the Stars The Ghost Patrol The Kidnaped Memorial Speed Young Man Axelbrod Seven Million Dollars Let's Play King Land A Letter From the Queen The Hack Driver Go East, Young Man Little Bear Bongo...

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105996670
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Air written by Sinclair Lewis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cheerful little road novel, published in 1919, is about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, where she falls in love with a nice, down-to-earth young man and gives up her snobbish Estate.From a critical perspective, Free Air is consistent with Sinclair Lewis's lean towards egalitarian politics, which he displays in his other works (most notably in It Can't Happen Here). Examples of his politics in Free Air are found in Lewis's emphasis on the heroic role played by the book's protagonist, Milt Dagget, a working class everyman type. Conversely, Lewis presents nearly every upper-class character in Claire Boltwood's world (including her railroad-mogul father) as being snobby elitists. The story also champions the democratic nature of the automobile, versus the more aristocratic railroad travel.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873515153
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis written by Sinclair Lewis and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, applied subversive satire and razor wit in his portrayals of American life. Born and raised in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he was one of the earliest writers to attack the myth of the noble, happy, American small town. Main Street, which he described as his "first novel to rouse the embattled peasantry," was praised and reviled--and immensely popular. This initial success was followed by such accomplished books as Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth, classics that today hold a prominent place in the American canon. Among the best of Lewis's works were short stories that he wrote for the popular magazines of the day. The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis collects the finest of these stories, acerbic tales set in Minnesota that reflect his favorite themes: local boosterism, the plight of strong women, native fascism, the grip of materialism. Lewis inserts himself as a character in two tales: he travels to Main Street's Gopher Prairie, where he talks to Dr. Will Kennicott, and to Babbitt's Zenith, where George Babbitt gives him a piece of his mind. Two of these stories have never been published, and six have not been reprinted since they first appeared.