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  • Babbitt

    Babbitt is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930. The book has twice been adapted to film. ... Read more

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  • Babbitt

    Enriched edition. American Nobel Prize Winner

    In "Babbitt," Sinclair Lewis crafts a scathing satire of American middle-class life in the 1920s, encapsulating the era's social mores through the experiences of George F. Babbitt, a prosperous yet unfulfilled real estate agent. The novel employs a sharp, ironic tone and vivid imagery to explore themes such as conformity, materialism, and the quest for individual identity amidst societal ... Read more

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  • Sinclair Lewis - Ultimate Collection (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. 40 + Titles: Complete Novels & Short Stories

    Sinclair Lewis - Ultimate Collection gathers the major fiction through which Lewis anatomized modern American life: the provincial complacencies of Main Street, the commercial pieties of Babbitt, the scientific ambitions of Arrowsmith, the religious showmanship of Elmer Gantry, and the authoritarian nightmare of It Can't Happen Here. Written in a sharp, observant, and often satirical realist style ... Read more

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  • Elmer Gantry. Illustrated

    Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis is a provocative and incisive novel that exposes the hypocrisies and moral corruption within American religious life in the 1920s. The story follows Elmer Gantry, a charming, ambitious, and unscrupulous young man who rises through the ranks of the evangelical movement. Outwardly pious and charismatic, Gantry exploits faith for personal gain, weaving a web of ... Read more

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  • Main Street

    Main Street is the book that first established Sinclair Lewis’s reputation as an important writer is both a satire and an affectionate portrait of Gopher Prairie, a typical American town, which was undoubtedly suggested by Sauk Centre, Minnesota, where Lewis was born.The heroine, Carol Kennicott, chafes at the dullness and sterility of her existence as the wife of the local doctor, and she tries ... Read more

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  • Speed

    “Speed” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.“Speed” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis.“Out in the road were two new automobile tires, and cans of gasoline, oil, water. The hose of a pressure air-pump stretched across the cement sidewalk, and beside it was an air-gauge in a new chamois ... Read more

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  • Babbitt

    Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930. The word Babbitt entered the English language as a "person and especially a business or ... Read more

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  • Main Street

    This classic by Sinclair Lewis shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire. “Main Street” attacks the conformity and dullness of early 20th century midwestern village life in the story of Carol Milford, the city girl who marries the town doctor. Her efforts to bring culture to the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, and petty small-minded ... Read more

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  • Main Street

    Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown. The novel takes place in the 1910s, with references to the start of World War I, the United States' entry into the war, and the years following the end of the war, including the start ... Read more

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  • Arrowsmith (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Pulitzer Prize Novel

    Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith is a searching novel of scientific vocation, following Martin Arrowsmith from medical school through private practice, public health work, and bacteriological research. Written in Lewis's lucid realist style, sharpened by satire and documentary detail, it examines the conflict between pure inquiry and institutional ambition. In the context of early twentieth-century ... Read more

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  • Arrowsmith

    Published in 1925, Arrowsmith is the story of Martin Arrowsmith, a gifted scientist making his way from a small Midwestern town to the apex of the scientific community. Arrowsmith follows the titular character from medical school through stints as a small-town doctor and regional health official to his discovery of a virus that destroys bacteria.Arrowsmith was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for ... Read more

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  • Elmer Gantry (Unabridged)

    Enriched edition.

    Sinclair Lewis's novel, 'Elmer Gantry' (Unabridged), delves into the world of early 20th-century evangelicalism, exploring the charismatic yet hypocritical character of Elmer Gantry as he rises through the ranks of a religious organization. The book is a scathing critique of religious hypocrisy and the manipulation of believers for personal gain. Through its vivid and satirical prose, Lewis shines ... Read more

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