Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986978538
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
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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
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Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Author: Sinclair Lewis
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Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974020744
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Languages : en
Pages : 406
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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. Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as for their strong characterizations of modern working women.
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537645636
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Sinclair Lewis was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Lewis became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature and his were noted for their critical views of American capitalism and materialism. With classics such as Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, Lewis remains one of the most widely read authors in the world. This collection includes the following short stories: The Ghost Patrol Young Man Axelbrod The Willow Walk The Cat of the Stars Things Speed The Kidnapped Memorial Moths in the Arc Light
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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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
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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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: Cosimo Classics
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Category : Medical ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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This novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1925; Sinclair Lewis declined to accept it. The story of the career of a man of science.
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 7904
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E-artnow presents to you the complete novels and the greatest short stories of the master of his craft and Nobel prize winner, Sinclair Lewis. This edition includes: Novels: Babbitt Free Air Main Street The Trail of the Hawk The Innocents The Job Our Mr. Wrenn Arrowsmith Mantrap Elmer Gantry The Man Who Knew Coolidge Dodsworth Ann Vickers Work of Art It Can't Happen Here The Prodigal Parents Bethel Merriday Gideon Planish Cass Timberlane Kingsblood Royal World So Wide Short Stories: Things Moths in the Arc Light The Willow Walk Nature, Inc. The Cat of the Stars The Ghost Patrol The Kidnaped Memorial Speed Young Man Axelbrod Seven Million Dollars Let's Play King Land A Letter From the Queen The Hack Driver Go East, Young Man Little Bear Bongo...
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698152700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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“The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—Salon It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can’t Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today’s news. Includes an Introduction by Michael Meyer and an Afterword by Gary Scharnhorst
