Isbn: 9780940450615 - Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (loa #59): 1 (library of America Sinclair Lewis Edition) (66 results)

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 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.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. 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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Hardcover with Slipcase. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" In tan cloth with gilt titling, housed in publisher's slipcase. A bright clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. #59. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($35.00). Brown cloth. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Deluxe Edition, first printing as stated on copyright page, book is flawless except for a tiny piece of excess cloth on the front cover, the binding is tight as if unread, ribbon bookmark, the cream-colored slipcase with gold logo is in excellent condition with no remarkable flaws ; ; 898 pages.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Library of America, 1992. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy of the First Printing (stated) of the Library of America edition. Acid-free paper, smyth-sewn binding, sewn-in ribbon marker in high quality cloth. This is the edition for subscribers-- issued in a slipcase instead of a DJ (which they publish for open sale). See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #164.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. (Number 59) DJ beneath mylar, a sturdy book, black background with a thin border in red, white and blue across middles, a photo of younger Paine at top front right, a sewn-in satin bookmark, brown color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 898 pages. Creases to bottom tips on pages 127-147, creased along page edge on 122-126. Very Fine DJ/Good book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st. First Edition, 1st Printing; tan c w/gilt titles on red; small red spot on front (Publisher's); 898 clean, unmarked pages/ notes, printed end papers; in near fine slikpcase; satin marker.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine brown cloth hardcover in fine illustrated jacket. 8vo. 898 pp. Ships fast with tracking.