454 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 1999 by Modern Library.
Sinclair Lewis: Main Street (1999, Modern Library)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-375-75314-5
- OCLC Number:
- 39914257
Copied ISBN!
The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Middle West. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to the ways of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. This groundbreaking novel attacks conformism, commercialism, moneygrubbing, and the decline in what Lewis saw as the American ideals of freedom and respect for individuality.
The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Middle West. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to the ways of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. This groundbreaking novel attacks conformism, commercialism, moneygrubbing, and the decline in what Lewis saw as the American ideals of freedom and respect for individuality.
Subjects
- City and town life -- Minnesota -- Fiction
- Physicians's spouses -- Minnesota -- Fiction
- Married women -- Minnesota -- Fiction