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Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage
Businessman George F. Babbitt loves the latest appliances, making money and the Republican party. In fact, he loves being a Solid Citizen even more than he loves his wife. But Babbitt comes to resent the middle class trappings he has worked so hard to acquire. Realising that his life is devoid of meanin ...Show more
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Category: Classics | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)
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 by Sinclair Lewis
Category: Art
Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be 'invited' to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his ...Show more
Expecting Jeeves by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse; Sinclair Lewis
Category: Classics
Good Lord, Jeeves Is there anything you don't know?I could not say, sir.That, in brief, is the essence of the relationship between aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his dryly superior valet, Jeeves. Originally published in The Strand magazine from 1918 to 1922 and later collected as The Inimitable Jeeves, ...Show more
Free Air by Sinclair Lewis
Category: Classics
Wealthy young socialite Claire Boltwood sets out with her father on a journey from Minneapolis to Seattle in a 70-horsepower Gomez-Dep roadster, one of the finest cars of the post-World War I era. For Milt Daggett, small-town mechanic and garage owner, a glimpse of their vehicle is as exciting as a come ...Show more
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump's authoritarian appeal."--Salon It Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how ...Show more
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Category: Fiction
The first of Sinclair Lewis's great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in ...Show more
Main Street by Morris (INT) Sinclair; Dickstein Lewis
Category: Fiction | Series: Bantam Classic
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The Job by Sinclair Lewis; James M. Hutchisson (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Gothic, SF and Dark Fantasy Ser.
Book Excerpt: the Panama Annual Chautauqua. She could have a job selling dry-goods behind the counter in the Hub Store, but that meant loss of caste. She could teach dancing--but she couldn't dance particularly well. And that was all that she could do. She had tried to find work as office-woman for Dr. ...Show more
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