Main Street (HBJ Modern Classic) - Hardcover

Lewis, Sinclair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151555478 ISBN 13: 9780151555475

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1989

Synopsis

In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. The first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender roles, and small town life, Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.

About this title

About the Author:

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), was born in Sauk Centre, Minne-sota, and graduated from Yale in 1907; in 1930 he became the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Main Street (1920) was his first critical and commercial success. Lewis's other noted books include Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).

From the Back Cover:

This famous novel of life on Main Street, Gopher Prairie, mirrors with devastating honesty life on Main Streets from Albany to San Diego.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0151555478
• ISBN 13: 9780151555475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496