books by Sinclair Lewis
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Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt (Signet Classics)
Sinclair Lewis
Signet Classics
, 1998
Everyone Should Own a Babbitt
Meet George F. Babbitt, age 46. Babbitt is a conformist. Babbitt is an image driven, merchandising, dyed-in-the-wool Presbyterian businessman. Babbitt is bleached white by a 1920's suburban midwest society and is in hot pursuit of the almighty dollar and happiness. ...
Babbitt (Signet Classics)
Sinclair Lewis
Signet Classics
, 2007
Since the 1922 publication of Babbitt, its eponymous anti-hero-a real estate broker and relentless social climber inhabiting a Midwestern town called Zenith-has become a symbol of stultifying values and middle class hypocrisy.
Elmer Gantry (Signet Classics)
Sinclair Lewis
Signet Classics
, 2007
A Timeless Classic... Can I get a hyprocritical AMEN!
Excellent read, extremely interesting and intelligent prose. Lewis has a field day exposing the sinful, sanctimonious world of evangelism in early twentieth century Mid-America. And does he ever expose it! You will be hard pressed to find a more disreputable jackass ...
Kingsblood Royal (Modern Library Classics)
Sinclair Lewis
Modern Library
, 2001
Truth in black and white
What if you discovered you were part black? Only 1/32nd, not enough to darken your skin, but beyond the pale in 1947. When Neil Kingsblood uncovers his heritage, he also discovers his conscience, finding it difficult, finally impossible to not express his outrage at ...
Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
Sinclair Lewis
Barnes & Noble Classics
, 2003
Excellent and Well Told Story
Carol is a girl with big dreams. When she marries Kennicott, she moves from the Twin Cities where she has supported herself, to rural life in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, where it is her dream to transform the sleepy town into something better. The ups and downs of ...
Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions)
Sinclair Lewis
Dover Publications
, 2003
George F. Babbitt: Apostle of Rotarianism and Boosterism
In April 1920 George F. Babbitt was a moderately successful, reasonably honest real estate man in the mythical midwestern American industrial city of Zenith. Product himself of a virtuous small town, Catawba, Babbitt rose to become a college graduate, married man and ...
Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
Signet Classics
, 2008
Sinclair Lewis Classic
Arrowsmith is the story of a young man who constantly tries to find himself and his place in the world. He wants to study medicine and devote himself to research, but life forces him to make many different choices. It is evocative of the 1920's and was awarded the ...
It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis
NAL Trade
, 2005
Be Militant for at least Once
Lee Roscoe has recently (© 2005) adapted Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here to the stage. This play is a militant agitprop work and is available to people who want to produce it for an audience in a militant perspective to fight against the present erring ...
Main Street (Signet Classics)
Sinclair Lewis
Signet Classics
, 2008
A Satirical Masterpiece and One Hec of a Read!
"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was." Thomas Carlyle Like in his other classic works (i.e. "Elmer Gantry", "Babbitt", etc...) Sinclair Lewis seems to relish the role of ripping apart the hypocritical world of mid-America in early 20th century ...
Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Library of America)
Sinclair Lewis
Library of America
, 1992
Relevant to today's Society
I read "Main Street" several years ago. It impressed me then and the memory of it has stayed with me. I had previously read "Babitt" and "Arrowsmith" which were both good novels but neither compared to "Main Street". Both previous novels poked fun at small town ...
Dodsworth
Sinclair Lewis
Signet Classics
, 1995
"Trophy Wife Dumps Hubby for Euro-Glitz"
No doubt, this one is for your 'must read' list. When you put it down, you will feel you've lost contact with some great characters, that you've really got inside a marriage, that you've seen life the way it can be. Samuel Dodsworth is an automobile magnate in the ...
ARROWSMITH
SINCLAIR LEWIS
P.F.Collier
, 1925
Babbit
Sinclair Lewis
BiblioBazaar
, 2006
Timeless
Initially I put this down years ago, unable to finish it, but later picked up again, and from page 200 on, this novel takes off. The plot is essentially about a middle manager in his 50s who has a midlife crisis and goes on a binge with bohemians. Sinclair takes his ...
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
Harcourt, Brace and Company
, 1927
Go East, Young Man: Sinclair Lewis on Class in America
Sinclair Lewis
Signet Classics
, 2005
A brand-new collection of Sinclair Lewis's prolific body of short fiction, focusing on the author's primary concerns: the issue of class, work and money in America.
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