This Nobel Prize laureate is celebrated for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create new character types with wit and humor. His works offer insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. His approach to writing has been described as a 'red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds,' reflecting his energetic and vivid style.
This book is distributed by the University of Nebraska Press on behalf of the University of Idaho Press, indicating a collaborative effort in publishing. It likely features academic or regional content relevant to Idaho or its surrounding areas, emphasizing the importance of local scholarship and research.
The protagonist, Mr. Wrenn, is a pacifist yearning for adventure beyond his mundane job. After receiving a small inheritance, he embarks on a brief journey that challenges his timid nature, culminating in a fistfight with a bully. This transformative experience leads him to form new friendships and meet Nelly upon his return to New York. The novel explores themes of self-discovery and personal growth against the backdrop of early 20th-century society.
Set in a small Minnesota town, the novel delves into complex themes of love, marriage, heartache, trust, and redemption. Written later in Sinclair Lewis's career, it offers a poignant exploration of relationships and personal growth. This classic work is being republished in an affordable, high-quality edition, preserving the original text and artwork, making it accessible to contemporary readers.
Makes available for the first time since their original publication some eighty years ago a collection of fifteen of Sinclair Lewis's early business stories. Among Lewis's funniest satires, these stories introduce the characters, themes, and techniques that would evolve into Babbitt. Each selection reflects the commercial culture of Lewis's day.
This 1919 road trip novel follows a New York socialite on a cross-country drive. But the greatest distance to surmount is the class divide between her and her suitor, a small-town mechanic.
A neglected tour de force by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Kingsblood Royal is a stirring and wickedly funny portrait of a man who resigns from the white race. When Neil Kingsblood a typical middle-American banker with a comfortable life makes the shocking discovery that he has African-American blood, the odyssey that ensues creates an unforgettable portrayal of two Americas, one black, one white.As timely as when it was first published in 1947, one need only open today's newspaper to see the same issues passionately being discussed between blacks and whites that we find in Kingsblood Royal , says Charles Johnson. Perhaps only now can we fully appreciate Sinclair Lewis's astonishing achievement.
Sinclair Lewis’ world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring ʼ20s. Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be “invited” to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church—a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence—is also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no trace of itself. Elmer Gantry has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire. With an introduction by Jason Stevens
Carl Ericson, a rebellious spirit, battles societal norms throughout his youth, leading to a life of adventure and self-discovery. His journey begins with hardship as a friendless wanderer, but he embraces the freedom of exploration. As he navigates various jobs and aspirations, including a burgeoning interest in aviation, he finds purpose and excitement. However, success brings its own challenges, leading to a tumultuous marriage and a yearning for adventure beyond the confines of a conventional life. Ultimately, Carl seeks new horizons in South America.
Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, which won him the Pulitzer Prize ...which Lewis declined. 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. The actual story deals with trials and tribulations of Martin Arrowsmith, a brilliant doctor and scientist who wants to conquer the plague virus from spreading. But the price comes at a very heavy cost. A must read!
Since the 1922 publication of Babbitt, its eponymous antihero—a prosperous real estate broker and relentless social climber inhabiting a Midwestern town called Zenith—has become a symbol of stultifying values and middle-class hypocrisy. At once a conformist and a rebel, George F. Babbitt represents an ordinary man whose life turns upside down during one of the most profound sea changes in American cultural history: the mechanization and hucksterism of the Roaring Twenties. Babbitt, his family, and his social circle are the very essence of the American Dream in all its glory and emptiness, and their story is a stirring portrait of a way of life in profound flux. Babbitt remains one of Sinclair Lewis’s most widely read novels. Contemptible and touching, frivolous and tragic, Babbitt is a rich, complex character whose legacy carries an eerie resonance to this day. Includes a new afterword by Azar Nafisi Introduction by Sally E. Parry
