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Product Identifiers
PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-100940450615
ISBN-139780940450615
eBay Product ID (ePID)993307
Product Key Features
Book TitleSinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Loa #59)
Number of Pages898 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicPsychological, Small Town & Rural, Satire, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorSinclair Lewis
Book SeriesLibrary of America Sinclair Lewis Edition Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN91-058224
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"Lewis is to slang what Mark Twain is to dialect. He has a grotesque facility for reproducing it, a talent like playing the saw or cracking knuckles.... Lewis has some of the sharpest nails on the American blackboard." -- GQ
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisIn 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. The remarkable novels presented here in this Library of America volume 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, was a phenomenal event in American publishing and cultural history. Lewis's idealistic, imaginative heroine, Carol Kennicott, "longs to get [her] hands on one of those prairie towns and make it beautiful," but when her doctor husband brings her to Gopher Prairie, she finds that the romance of the American frontier has dwindled to the drab reality of the American Middle West. The great romantic satire of its decade, Main Street is a wry, sad, funny account of a woman who attempts to challenge the hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness of her community. In the character of George F. Babbitt, the boisterous, vulgar, worried, gadget-loving real estate man from Zenith, Lewis fashioned a new and enduring figure in American literature--the total conformist. Babbitt is a "joiner," who thinks and feels with the crowd. Lewis surrounds him with a gallery of familiar American types--small businessman, Rotarians, Elks, boosters, supporters of evangelical Christianity. In biting satirical scenes of club lunches, after-dinner speeches, trade association conventions, fishing trips and Sunday School committees, Lewis reproduces the noisy restlessness of American commercial culture. In 1930 Sinclair Lewis was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, largely for his achievement in Babbitt . These early novels not only define a crucial period in American history--from America''s "coming of age" just before World War I to the dizzying boom of the twenties--they also continue to astonish us with essential truths about the country we live in today. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
LC Classification NumberPS3523.E94M2 1992
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