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Main Street (Bantam Classics)

by Sinclair Lewis

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ISBN13: 9780553214512
ISBN10: 0553214519
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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 town. But her efforts to reform the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, conventionality, pitifully unambitious cultural endeavors, and—worst of all—the pettiness and bigotry of small-town minds.

Lewis’s portrayal of a marriage torn by disillusionment and a woman forced into compromises is at once devastating social satire and persuasive realism. His subtle characterizations and intimate details of small-town America make Main Street a complex and compelling work and established Lewis as an important figure in twentieth-century American literature.

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This classic by Sinclair Lewis shattered the  sentimental American myth of happy small-town life  with its satire. Main Street  attacks the conformity and dullness of early 20th  Century midwestern village life in the story of Carol  Milford, the city girl who marries the town doctor.  Her efforts to bring culture to the prairie  village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, and petty  small-minded bigotry. Lewis's complex and compelling  work established him as an important character in  American literature.
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About the Author

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1930, the first American novelist to be so honored. He was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the son of a doctor. After an extremely unhappy childhood, he went to Yale but left before graduation to work in Upton Sinclair’s socialist colony at Helicon Hall in Englewood, New Jersey. Unable to make a living as a freelance writer, he returned to Yale and graduated in 1908. In 1914 he published his first novel, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man. But it was not until his sixth novel, Main Street (1920), that he won recognition as an important American novelist, the first to challenge the myth of the happy quintessentially American small town. His major works are Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), which won a Pulitzer Prize that Lewis refused to accept, Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can’t Happen Here (1935), which he also wrote as a play in 1936. Married and divorced twice, the second time to pioneering newspaperwoman Dorothy Thompson, Lewis was a prolific writer, publishing dozens of books and innumerable articles throughout his career. He died alone in Rome on January 10, 1951, and his ashes were returned to Sauk Centre, the “Main Street” he’d rejected so many decades before but which in death took him back as its own.
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ISBN:
9780553214512
Introduction:
Dickstein, Morris
Publisher:
Bantam Classics
Introduction:
Dickstein, Morris
Author:
Lewis, Sinclair
Location:
Oklahoma City, Okla. :
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
American
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Married women -- Minnesota -- Fiction.
Subject:
Married women
Subject:
City and town life
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Series:
Bantam Classic
Publication Date:
March 1996
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
521
Dimensions:
6.87x4.20x.91 in. .58 lbs.
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