Sinclair Lewis
1) Babbitt
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Zenith is the finest example of American life and prosperity to be found anywhere." Zenith is the Midwestern city where George F. Babbitt lives and works. A successful real estate agent, his business provides all the material trappings and comfort he thinks he ought to have. He is a member of all the right clubs, and unquestioningly shares the same aspirations and ideas as his friends and fellow Boosters. Yet even complacent, conformist Babbitt dreams...
2) Main street
Author
Language
English
Description
"Introduction and notes by Brooke Allen. A fiercely satiric portrait of small-town America, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street created a sensation when it first appeared in 1920. 'If it was not the most important revelation of American life ever made,' wrote Lewis's biographer Mark Shorer, 'it was the most infamous libel upon it.' The story's heroine is Carol Kennicott, a naive college graduate who leaves St. Paul, Minnestoa, to marry a country doctor...
Author
Publisher
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"Doctor Arrowsmith" es considerada una de las obras maestras de la narrativa norteamericana del siglo XX. Como hijo y nieto de médicos, Sinclair Lewis tenía gran cantidad de conocimientos sobre el mundo de la medicina. El libro sigue la vida de Martin Arrowsmith, un tipo bastante común que entra en contacto con la medicina a los catorce años como asistente del médico en su ciudad natal. Lewis narra de manera brillante el mundo de la investigación...
5) Arrowsmith
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Language
English
Description
"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." --
6) Elmer Gantry
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Language
English
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Description
Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel that presents aspects of the religious activity of America in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it.
7) The job
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
"The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis.It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920s and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania town to New York. Forced to work due to family illness, Una shows a talent...
8) Free Air
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
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Bored of the parties and luxuries that come with her socialite lifestyle, Claire Boltwood longs for something more authentic in her life. Desperate for adventure, Claire and her father decide to travel from New York City to the Pacific Northwest in their automobile, a new privilege enjoyed by the rich. Though he is a clever businessman, Claire's father knows nothing about cars, so he encourages Claire to drive, challenging the gender stereotypes of...
9) Babbit
Author
Publisher
eBooksLib
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings.
10) Dodsworth
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1947.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships.
Samuel Dodsworth, a wealthy automobile manufacturer, retires and takes his wife to Europe where he meets an American widow who teaches him the value of Europe and the nature of love.
Author
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
1942.
Language
English
Description
In the beginning of the story we meet our "Mr. Wrenn" a very mild, very ordinary American clerk. Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He is described as "a meek little bachelor-a person of inconspicuous blue ready-made suits, and a small unsuccessful mustache, who was always bending over bills and columns of figures at a desk behind the stock room."Mr. Wrenn is not happy with his life; he does not want to work for the Souvenir...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 59
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1992.
Language
English
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,...
14) Kingsblood royal
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Series
Language
English
Description
A man discovers one of his forebears was Black and experiences what it is to be a Black person in a northern town where presumably prejudice is non-existent.
Author
Series
Library of America ; 133
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"In Arrowsmith, Lewis portrays the medical education and career of a physician whose idealistic commitment is tested by the greed and opportunism he encounters at all levels of his profession. Elmer Gantry dramatizes the growing tension between secularism and fundamentalism in 1920s America through the portrait of a glib and self-serving preacher relentlessly pursuing worldly pleasure and power. Dodsworth depicts the unraveling marriage of an American...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
Main street: A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there.
Babbitt: The life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor is described reflecting an image of middle-class America.
Arrowsmith: A man of science must overcome public ignorance and the petty greed of associates as he seeks knowledge.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1949]
Language
English
Description
A missionary to Sioux Indians becomes a builder in St. Paul and organizes a non-segregated union.
"Not a thesis novel such as one has come to expect of Sinclair Lewis, but in a semi-historical, semi-period novel, he manages to stab the hypocrisies of the hell and damnation type of missionary spirit which activated some of our westward passage. The story has period values, in the pre-civil war picture of the opening up of Minnesota, the building of...