Main Street: Special Edition, Lewis Sinclair

Автор: Lewis, Sinclair
Название: Main Street
ISBN: 0451530985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451530981
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Lewis, Sinclair
Название: Arrowsmith HB
ISBN: 1931082081 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781931082082
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Описание: Written at the height of his powers, the three novels included in this Library of America volume continue the vigorous unmasking of the pretenses and hypocrisies of American middle-class life that Sinclair Lewis began in Main Street and Babbitt. The social sweep and descriptive power of Lewis's fiction earned him international recognition as a chronicler of his times, and in 1930 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first American thus honored.

In Arrowsmith (1925), Lewis portrays the medical education and career of Martin Arrowsmith, a physician who finds his commitment to the ideals of his profession tested by the greed and opportunism he encounters in private practice, public health work, and scientific research. The novel reaches its climax as its hero faces his greatest medical and moral challenges amid a deadly outbreak of plague on a Caribbean island. Arrowsmith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, which Lewis refused to accept.

Elmer Gantry (1927) aroused intense controversy with its brutal depiction of a hypocritical preacher in relentless pursuit of worldly pleasure and power. Through his satiric examination of evangelical religion, Lewis captures the growing cultural and political tension during the 1920s between the forces of secularism and fundamentalism. Gantry, with his glib eloquence and behind-the-scenes self-indulgence, has become an archetypal figure in American culture.

Dodsworth (1929) follows Sam Dodsworth, a wealthy retired Midwestern automobile manufacturer, as he travels through England, France, Germany, and Italy with his increasingly restless wife, Fran. The novel intimately explores the unraveling of their marriage while pitting the proud heritage of European high culture against the rude strength of ascendant American commercialism.

Автор: Lewis, Sinclair
Название: Main Street / Babbitt
ISBN: 0940450615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780940450615
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Автор: Michels, Steven J.
Название: Sinclair lewis and american democracy
ISBN: 1498519164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498519168
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: This book examines each of Lewis`s novels on key themes in the history of political thought and democracy, including freedom and purpose, success and materialism, and nationalism and race. Lewis is revealed to be an unapologetic individualist and a fierce humanitarian.

Автор: Lewis Sinclair
Название: Babbitt
ISBN: 1787248534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787248533
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Satirical novel about American culture, society, and middle-class pressure toward conformity. An immediate and controversial bestseller, Babbitt was influential in the decision to award Lewis the Nobel Prize in literature. The word 'Babbitt' entered the English language as a person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class dogmas.

Автор: Lewis, Sinclair
Название: Babbitt
ISBN: 0099264714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099264712
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Realising that his life is devoid of meaning, he grows determined to transcend his trivial existence and search for a greater purpose. In the economic boom years of 1920s` America, Babbitt became a symbol of middle-class mediocrity, and his name an enduring part of the American lexicon.