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Sinclair Lewis
"Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis is a satirical masterpiece critiquing societal conformity and the pursuit of the American Dream in 1920s Midwest America.
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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…
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New annotated edition of Arrowsmith, the third major novel by Sinclair Lewis, author of Main Street and Babbitt, and arguably his most ambitious work.
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The timeless classic prophetically written in 1935 by the Nobel Prize-winningauthor of Babbit, Arrowsmith, and Main Street. Lewis tells a chilling tale oftotalitarianism and the death of democracy in the…
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D. M. S. Fick
A missing brooch. A face set in cement. This is not your average music festival.
Lewis Sinclair, a stalwart and tender country musician, is about to take the stage with…
Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, applied subversive satire and razor-sharp wit in his portrayals of American life. This book collects the finest of…
Stephen R. Pastore
Sinclair Lewis, celebrated author of Babbitt and Main Street , wrote more than twenty novels in the course of his prolific career, most of which went through several editions over…
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Steven J. Michels
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…
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.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Sinclair Lewis’ Arrowsmith, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for…
A Study Guide for Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for…
Main Street’s protagonist, Carol Milford from Minneapolis, must adjust to small town life after marrying country doctor Will Kennecott and moving to his home town of Gopher Prairie. She finds…
Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7th, 1885 in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis-tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat…
Richard R. Lingeman
Presents a biography of Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Sinclair Lewis. This book portrays the life of an eccentric alcoholic-workaholic whose novels and stories shibboleths with a mixture of caricature and realism…
A Study Guide for Sinclair Lewis’s Elmer Gantry, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s. He became an…
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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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…
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…
A trenchant satire on consumeristic society Babbitt is the crowning achievement of Sinclair Lewis, winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature. This edition contains notes and extra material.
The Trail of the Hawk is a truly lifelike chronicle of the fortunes of Widow Ericson’s boy Carl, who becomes Hawk’ Ericson, the daring aviator, and marries a very nice…
A novel that satirises the manners of the American Midwest. It attacks conformism, commercialism, money-grabbing, and the decline in what the author saw as the American ideals of freedom and…
Arrowsmith tells the story of bright and scientifically minded Martin Arrowsmith of Elk Mills, Winnemac, as he makes his way from a small town in the Midwest to the upper…
A novel about Carol Kennicott, the wife of a town doctor, who dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community.
Three years before the civic-minded Carol Kennicott came to life in Main Street, Una Golden was confronting the male dinosaurs of business. A working girl in New York City, Una…
