The Minnesota Stories Of Sinclair Lewis

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0873515153

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The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, applied subversive satire and razor wit in his portrayals of American life. Born and raised in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he was one of the earliest writers to attack the myth of the noble, happy, American small town. Main Street, which he described as his "first novel to rouse the embattled peasantry," was praised and reviled--and immensely popular. This initial success was followed by such accomplished books as Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth, classics that today hold a prominent place in the American canon. Among the best of Lewis's works were short stories that he wrote for the popular magazines of the day. The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis collects the finest of these stories, acerbic tales set in Minnesota that reflect his favorite themes: local boosterism, the plight of strong women, native fascism, the grip of materialism. Lewis inserts himself as a character in two tales: he travels to Main Street's Gopher Prairie, where he talks to Dr. Will Kennicott, and to Babbitt's Zenith, where George Babbitt gives him a piece of his mind. Two of these stories have never been published, and six have not been reprinted since they first appeared.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783756897391

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Main Street by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

The novel written by Sinclair Lewis is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The novel takes place in the 1910s, with references to the start of World War I, the United States' entry into the war, and the years following the end of the war, including the start of Prohibition. Satirizing small-town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book, and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents of Gopher Prairie. Highly acclaimed upon publication, Main Street remains a recognized American classic.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Borealis Book
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015060890632

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The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

Wickedly funny and surprisingly fresh, these stories offer a unique look at on of the most important American writers of the twentieth century

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : IND:30000095637124

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The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1904-1949) by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

Author : Richard R. Lingeman
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873515412

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Sinclair Lewis by Richard R. Lingeman Pdf

In this definitive biography of Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt), Lingeman presents an empathetic, absorbing, and balanced portrait of an eccentric alcoholic-workaholic whose novels and stories exploded shibboleths with a volatile mixture of caricature and realism. Drawing on newly uncovered correspondence, diaries, and criticism, Lingeman gives new life to this prairie Mercutio out of Sauk Centre, Minnesota.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0809321394

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If I Were Boss by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

An anthology of stories on the corporate world, written earlier this century by Sinclair Lewis. Set in New York, the subjects range from back-stabbing to office romance.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082225883

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Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780940450615

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Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (LOA #59) by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

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. The remarkable novels presented here in this Library of America volume 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, was a phenomenal event in American publishing and cultural history. Lewis's idealistic, imaginative heroine, Carol Kennicott, "longs to get [her] hands on one of those prairie towns and make it beautiful,” but when her doctor husband brings her to Gopher Prairie, she finds that the romance of the American frontier has dwindled to the drab reality of the American Middle West. The great romantic satire of its decade, Main Street is a wry, sad, funny account of a woman who attempts to challenge the hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness of her community. In the character of George F. Babbitt, the boisterous, vulgar, worried, gadget-loving real estate man from Zenith, Lewis fashioned a new and enduring figure in American literature—the total conformist. Babbitt is a “joiner,” who thinks and feels with the crowd. Lewis surrounds him with a gallery of familiar American types—small businessman, Rotarians, Elks, boosters, supporters of evangelical Christianity. In biting satirical scenes of club lunches, after-dinner speeches, trade association conventions, fishing trips and Sunday School committees, Lewis reproduces the noisy restlessness of American commercial culture. In 1930 Sinclair Lewis was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, largely for his achievement in Babbitt. These early novels not only define a crucial period in American history—from America’’s “coming of age” just before World War I to the dizzying boom of the twenties—they also continue to astonish us with essential truths about the country we live in today. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986978532

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Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

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 : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547115113

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Cass Timberlane by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Cass Timberlane" by Sinclair Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649741288

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Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Novelists, American
ISBN : OCLC:746937991

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Sinclair Lewis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547730941

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Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

Neil Kingsblood is a white middle-class man who discovers, while researching his family background, that he is directly descended from an African adventurer on the American frontier. Through various machinations, Kingsblood loses his banking job and takes a lesser one. He begins to be treated differently by former acquaintances, despite the lack of visible black African ancestry. He is forced to choose between continuing what he has come to see as a hollow existence in the white community and taking on the oppressed minority status of the black community. After Kingsblood tells several white friends about his newfound ancestry, the news quickly spreads, and he finds that acquaintances change their behavior toward him. He engages in a quixotic struggle against the racism newly apparent but widespread in his community.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735253315

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

Written during the Great Depression, It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis’s novel satirizing American politics, describes the rise of a totalitarian regime in the United States. When Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip is elected president of the United States, he does so by inciting fear and dissent, promising massive economic and social changes in order to regain America’s prominence in the world. Once in office, he moves quickly to gain total control of the government and empowers a ruthless paramilitary force to carry out his rule and suppress all those who stand in his way. Depicting a frightening world where fascism has taken hold in America, Lewis’s novel is a prescient and alarming tale of power, corruption, and how easily democracy can fall prey to manipulation. Described by the Guardian as “the 1935 novel that predicted the rise of Donald Trump,” It Can’t Happen Here is as timely now as it was when it was first published.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775456773

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The Job by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

American writer Sinclair Lewis was interested in the social implications of the aggressive brand of capitalism that began to emerge in the U.S. the early twentieth century. In The Job, he focuses on the rising stature of women in the workforce, detailing the triumphs and travails of a young woman named Una Golden, who discovers that she has an inborn talent for real estate -- and that she must fight against the nearly overwhelming chauvinism in the industry to stake her claim.