Sinclair Lewis
Author
Series
Library of America volume 59
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. These remarkable novels combine brilliant satire with a lingering affection for the men and women who, as Lewis wrote of Babbitt, want "to seize something more than motor cars and a house before it's too late."
Main Street (1920), Lewis's first triumph,...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 133
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2002
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Description
"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...
