Featuring a new introduction by novelist E. L. Doctorow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel recounts the story of a Midwestern physician who is forced to give up his profession due to the ignorance, corruption, and greed of society. Reprint.
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Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885 1951) was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the son of a country doctor. After graduating from Yale in 1907, he went to New York, tried freelance work for a time, and then worked in a variety of editorial positions from the East Coast to California. Main Street (1920) was his first successful novel. In the decade that followed, Lewis published four other acclaimed novels of social criticism Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), and Dodsworth (1929). In 1930 he became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He continued to write both novels and plays for another two decades, publishing his last work, World So Wide (1951), shortly before his death in Rome.
Sally E. Parry is Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and Director of General Education at Illinois State University. She is currently the Executive Director of the Sinclair Lewis Society and editor of the Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter. She has edited two collections of short stories by Sinclair Lewis, Go East, Young Man: Sinclair Lewis on Class in America (2005) and The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis (2005), and with Robert L. McLaughlin, written We ll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II (2006).
E. L. Doctorow is one of America s preeminent men of letters. His novels include The Waterworks, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Loon Lake, World s Fair, Lives of the Poets, Billy Bathgate, and Welcome to Hard Times. His work has garnered the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the William Dean Howells medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters."
A man of science must overcome public ignorance and the petty greed of associates as he seeks knowledge.
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Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps: shows just a hint of wear to the the corner tips; a tiny, faint crease at the lower front corner tip; "Sinclair Lewis Museum Logo and an image of a statue of Lewis rubber stamped at the inside of the front cover; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the back-strip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tighly bound, showing minor imperfections only. Bright and clean. Close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.9 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches). 458 pages. Afterward by E.L. Doctorow. Language: English. Weight: 8 ounces. First Edition Thus (1998); Fourth Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885 1951) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first in fact from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). Lewis was greatly assisted in its preparation by science writer Paul de Kruif, who received 25% of the royalties on sales, although Lewis was listed as the sole author. Arrowsmith is an early major novel dealing with the culture of science. It was written in the period after the reforms of medical education flowing from the Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, which had called on medical schools in the United States to adhere to mainstream science in their teaching and research. First Edition Thus (1998); Fourth Printing. Seller Inventory # 55783
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