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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780940450615
- EAN
- 9780940450615
- Book Title
- Sinclair Lewis: Mainstreet and Babbitt (Loa #59)
- Item Length
- 8.1in
- Publisher
- Library of America, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 1992
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Small Town & Rural, Satire, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 898 Pages
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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. 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.
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Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0940450615
ISBN-13
9780940450615
eBay Product ID (ePID)
993307
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sinclair Lewis: Mainstreet and Babbitt (Loa #59)
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Small Town & Rural, Satire, Literary
Publication Year
1992
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
898 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.1in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
18
Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Ps3523.E94m2 1992
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
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
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
91-058224
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Series
Library of America Sinclair Lewis Edition Ser.
Dewey Edition
20
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