Sinclair Lewis
1) Main street
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The lonely predicament of a young housewife caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness, reflects the position of the turn-of-the-century woman. An allegory of exile and return, the story attacks the complacency of those who resist change.
2) Arrowsmith
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After years of work as a small town doctor and a research scientist, Arrowsmith heads for the West Indies with a serum to halt an epidemic. A tragic turn of events forces him to come to terms with his career and his personal life.
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“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 fascism could take hold in America.
Written during the Great Depression,...
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 fascism could take hold in America.
Written during the Great Depression,...
4) Babbitt
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English
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The life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor is described reflecting an image of middle-class America.
5) Elmer Gantry
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A vulgar and licentious college football captain becomes a messenger of God as a suave evangelist preacher.
11) Cass Timberlane
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English
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Virginia Marshland is a vivacious young woman from the wrong side of the tracks, whose rebellious ways fascinate small town widowed judge Cass Timberlane. He's lonely enough to believe that his stuffy friends will accept her, and their marriage. But Virginia is too spirited to play the part of a dutiful society wife for long, and soon becomes tempted by a friend of Timberlane's, a man about town who seems to offer the sophistication and adventure...
12) Arrowsmith
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A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.