Sinclair Lewis
1) Arrowsmith
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After years of work as a small town doctor and a research scientist, Arrowsmith heads for the West Indies with a serum to halt an epidemic. A tragic turn of events forces him to come to terms with his career and his personal life.
2) Babbitt
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Babbitt is the middle-class, average-American protagonist of this novel. Though he conforms to society and attempts to scale the social ladder, Babbitt gradually becomes dissatisfied with the American Dream. He branches out to test other, more rebellious ways of life. He returns to where he began, disillusioned with the equally rigid standards he has found among the non-conformists, though still holding an openness to individuality in his heart. As...
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First published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is
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Library of America volume 133
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2002
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"In Arrowsmith (1925) Lewis portrays the medical education and career of Martin Arrowsmith, a physician wo finds his comittment to the ideals of his profession tested by the greed and opportunism he encounters in private practice, public health work, and scientific research. Elmer Gantry (1927) aroused intense controversy with its brutal depiction of a hypocritcal preacher in relentless pursuit of worldly pleasure and power. Dodsworth (1929) follows...
