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Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

FormatEbook
Published2006
Words1,66,525
LanguageEnglish
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Main Street follows Carol Kennicott, an idealistic young woman who marries a country doctor and moves to a small Minnesota town, where she confronts the narrowness and conformity of provincial American life. It suits readers interested in early twentieth-century American fiction and social satire.
Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).

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