โ Sinclair Lewis
๐ Fiction
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1948
๐ Plain Label Books
๐ English
โ 316 KB
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โฆ LIBER โฆ
Main Street
โ Scribed by Sinclair Lewis
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 352 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 067964167X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker,
H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West,
Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Constance Rourke, and Mark Schorer
"Main Street is the climax of civilization," Sinclair Lewis declared with a typical blend of seriousness and irony. "That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters." Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to reform her small town, brought Lewis immediate acclaim when it was published in 1920. It remains one of the essential texts of the American scene. Lewis Mumford observed: "In Main Street an American had at last written of our life with something of the intellectual rigor and critical detachment that had seemed so cruel and unjustified [in Charles Dickens and Matthew Arnold]. Young people had grown up in...
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