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Author : Carl Van Doren,Harvey Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015004157411
Author : Carl Van Doren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:77093075
Author : Carl Van Doren,Harvey Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1039073792
Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473379886
This early work by Sinclair Lewis was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA in 1885. A lonely and socially awkward child, Lewis tried unsuccessfully to run away from home, before entering Yale University in 1903. It was here that, in the Yale Courant and the Yale Literary Magazine, Lewis had his first works – mostly romantic poetry and short sketches – published. In 1920, while living in Washington D.C., Lewis had his first major success with the novel Main Street. Selling around two million copies within a few years, it catapulted Lewis into fame and riches, and he followed it with the critically acclaimed Babbitt (1922), and Arrowsmith (1925) – for which he received, but refused, the Pulitzer Prize.
Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041802418
Carol Milford grows up in a mid-sized town in Minnesota before moving to Chicago for college. After her education, during which she’s exposed to big-city life and culture, she moves to Minneapolis to work as a librarian. She soon meets Will Kennicott, a small-town doctor, and the two get married and move to Gopher Prairie, Kennicott’s home town. Carol, inspired by big-city ideas, soon begins chafing at the seeming quaintness and even backwardness of the townsfolk, and their conservative, self-satisfied way of life. She struggles to try to reform the town in her image, while finding meaning in the seeming cultural desert she’s found herself in and in her increasingly cold marriage. Gopher Prairie is a detailed, satirical take on small-town American life, modeled after Sauk Centre, the town in which Lewis himself grew up. The town is fully realized, with generations of inhabitants interacting in a complex web of village society. Its bitingly satirical portrayal made Main Street highly acclaimed by its contemporaries, though many thought the satirical take was perhaps a bit too dark and hopeless. The book’s celebration and condemnation of small town life make it a candidate for the title of the Great American Novel. Main Street was awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, but the decision was overturned by the prize’s Board of Trustees and awarded instead to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence. When Lewis went on to win the 1926 Pulitzer for Arrowsmith, he declined it—with the New York Times reporting that he did so because he was still angry at the Pulitzers for being denied the prize for Main Street. Despite the book’s snub at the Pulitzers, Lewis went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, with Main Street being cited as one of the reasons for his win.
Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473379879
This early work by Sinclair Lewis was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA in 1885. A lonely and socially awkward child, Lewis tried unsuccessfully to run away from home, before entering Yale University in 1903. It was here that, in the Yale Courant and the Yale Literary Magazine, Lewis had his first works – mostly romantic poetry and short sketches – published. In 1920, while living in Washington D.C., Lewis had his first major success with the novel Main Street. Selling around two million copies within a few years, it catapulted Lewis into fame and riches, and he followed it with the critically acclaimed Babbitt (1922), and Arrowsmith (1925) – for which he received, but refused, the Pulitzer Prize.
Author : Mark Schorer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3072 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951
ISBN : OCLC:612881920
Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781645423959
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt, a novel that contributed to Lewis’ eventual Nobel Prize award. As a satirical novel of the roaring twenties, Babbitt addresses the “American Dream” as was idolized by the middle class in early 20th century America. Moreover, this satirical work points to the attitudes, values, and beliefs of the American middle class living in such a prosperous time, with an emphasis on security and conformity. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Lewis’ classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Author : James M. Hutchisson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271040858
The Rise of Sinclair Lewis examines the making of Lewis's best-selling novels Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and Elmer Gantry--their sources, composition, publication, and subsequent critical reception. Drawing on thousands of pages of material from Lewis's notes, outlines, and drafts--most of it never before published--James M. Hutchisson shows how Lewis selected usable materials and shaped them, through his unique vision, into novels that reached and remained part of the American literary imagination. Hutchisson also describes for the first time how large a role was played by Lewis's wives, assistants, and publishers in determining the final shape of his books.
Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649741288
Arrowsmith has been inspirational for several generations of med students. Martin Arrowsmith agonizes over his career and life decisions never sure if he’s making the correct descisions. While the book details Arrowsmith's pursuit of the noble ideals of medical research for the benefit of mankind and of selfless devotion to the care of patients, Lewis throws many less noble temptations and self deceptions in Arrowsmith’s path. The attractions of financial security, recognition, even wealth and power distract Arrowsmith from his original plan to follow in the footsteps of his first mentor, Max Gottlieb, a brilliant but abrasive bacteriologist. A powerful novel that asks more questions than it answers. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410336217
Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199567690
'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 of romance and escape, and when his best friend does something to throw his world upside down, he rebels, and tries to findfulfilment in romantic adventures and liberal thinking. Hilarious and poignant, Babbitt turns the spotlight on middle America and strips bare the hypocrisy of business practice, social mores, politics, and religious institutions. A brilliant satire, it evokes an era and at the same time exposes auniversal social malaise.In his introduction and notes Gordon Hutner explores the novel's historical and literary contexts, and its rich cultural and social references.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:958660061
Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986978532
Amidst Sinclair Lewis s many remarkable novels are more than a hundred short stories which he wrote over forty-four years. Selected Short Stories contains those selected by Lewis himself and illustrates the wide range of his art and interest: tales of romantic fantasy or escape, melodramas of heroic or mock-heroic adventure, boy-meets-girl stories, satires of pretension and folly, and tales of isolation and loneliness. Lewis often played variations on themes more fully developed in his novels. Described by E.M. Forster: What Mr. Lewis has done for myself and thousands of others is to lodge a piece of a continent in our imagination. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Stuart Pratt Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Satire, American
ISBN : NWU:35556032716474