Main Street

sinclair lewis brooke allen

This is America, a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. So Sinclair Lewis, recipient of the Nobel Prize and rejecter of the Pulitzer, prefaces his novel Main Street. Lewis is brutal in his depictions of the self-satisfied inhabitants of small-town America, a place which proves to be merely an assemblage of pretty surfaces, strung together and ultimately empty.

Genres classicsfictionliteraturehistorical fictionamericannovelsbook clubnobel prize20th centuryclassic literature

526 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 23,1920

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minnesota,

This edition

Format: 526 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: August 1, 2003 by Barnes \u0026 Noble Classics
ISBN: 9781593080365
ASIN: 1593080360
Language: English

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Carol Milford

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Will Kennicott

A doctor, who is a small-town Minnesota boy at heart....

About the author

sinclair lewis

Novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927) and first received a Nobel Prize for literature in 1930.

Middle-class values and materialism attach unthinking George F. Babbitt, the narrow-minded, self-satisfied main character person in the novel of Sinclair Lewis.

People awarded "his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."

He knowingly, insightfully, and critically viewed capitalism and materialism between the wars. People respect his strong characterizations of modern women.

Henry Louis Mencken wrote, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade...it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds."

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