Main Street
$19.87
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
31 March 1999
Summary
The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life.
Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the small…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553214512 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0553214519 |
| Author: | Sinclair Lewis |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 1999 |
| Weight: | 335g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 106mm x 171mm |
| Series: | Bantam Classics |
| Audience Age: | 14-18 |
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Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
Sinclair Lewis was the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, receiving the honor in 1930. Born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he was the son of a doctor. After a difficult childhood, he attended Yale, though he left before graduating to work at Upton Sinclair’s socialist colony at Helicon Hall in Englewood, New Jersey. He eventually returned to Yale and completed his degree in 1908.
Lewis published his first novel, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, in 1914. However, it was his sixth novel, Main Street (1920), that brought him widespread recognition. In this novel, he challenged the idealized portrayal of the American small town.
His major works include:
- Babbitt (1922)
- Arrowsmith (1925) - This novel won a Pulitzer Prize, which Lewis famously refused to accept.
- Elmer Gantry (1927)
- Dodsworth (1929)
- It Can’t Happen Here (1935) - This work was also adapted into a play in 1936.
Lewis was married and divorced twice. His second wife was the renowned newspaperwoman Dorothy Thompson. Throughout his career, he was a highly productive writer, authoring dozens of books and countless articles.
Sinclair Lewis died in Rome on January 10, 1951. His ashes were interred in his hometown of Sauk Centre, the “Main Street” he had once sought to distance himself from but which ultimately claimed him in death.
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