Sinclair Lewis
1) Main street
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Describes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact that she lives in a small, self-satisfied, Midwestern town.
2) Babbitt
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At once a conformist and a rebel, George F. Babbitt represents an ordinary man whose life turns upside down during one of the most profound sea changes in American cultural history: the mechanization and hucksterism of the Roaring Twenties.
3) Free Air
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"This cheerful little road novel, published in 1919, is about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, where she falls in love with a nice, down-to-earth young man and gives up her snobbish Estate."--The Book Stub.
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A cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States first published in 1935. During the presidential election of 1936, Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, observes with dismay that many of the people he knows support the candidacy of a fascist, Berzelius Windrip. When Windrip wins the election, he forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court, and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States...
11) Elmer Gantry
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One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920s Midwestern Corn Belt.
12) Arrowsmith
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Signet classic volume CE2225
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A young doctor must decide between worldly success and his own desire to devote his life to scientific research.
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Library of America volume 59
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Library of America
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©1992.
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English
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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,...
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Library of America volume 133
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2002
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English
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The author's three great novels--Arrowsmith, Dodsworth, and Elmer Gantry, the saga of a hypocritical preacher in pursuit of power and worldly pleasure--are collected for the first time.
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Harcourt, Brace & World
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[1961]
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English
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Main street: A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there--Novelist.
Babbitt: The life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor is described reflecting an image of middle-class America--Novelist.
Arrowsmith: A man of science must overcome public ignorance and the petty greed of associates as he seeks knowledge--Novelist.
19) Arrowsmith
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MGM Home Entertainment
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2005.
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English
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Happily married country doctor Martin Arrowsmith leaves his small practice for the prospects of wealth and important medical research at New York City's esteemed McGurk Institute and finds himself faced with an intense workload, a romance-minded socialite, and a plague outbreak.
20) Elmer Gantry
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MGM Home Entertainment Inc
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[2001]
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English
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One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.