Sinclair Lewis
Author
Series
Library of America volume 59
Pub. Date
©1992.
Physical Desc
898 pages ; 21 cm.
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,...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 133
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1,346 pages ; 21 cm.
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...
4) Dodsworth
Author
Pub. Date
1929.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 20 cm
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.
5) Arrowsmith
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xii, 459 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel recounts the story of a Midwestern physician who is forced to give up his profession due to the ignorance, corruption, and greed of society.