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  • ELMER GANTRY
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    In "Elmer Gantry," Sinclair Lewis crafts a riveting tale of ambition, hypocrisy, and moral conflict, following the charismatic yet unscrupulous Elmer Gantry as he rises to power within the American religious landscape. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America, this provocative narrative explores themes of faith, corruption, and the seductive allure of power. Lewis...

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  • ARROWSMITH
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    Arrowsmith tells the story of bright and scientifically minded Martin Arrowsmith of Elk Mills, Winnemac (the same fictional state in which several of Lewis's other novels are set), as he makes his way from a small town in the Midwest to the upper echelons of the scientific community at a prestigious foundation in New York City. Along the way he begins medical school. He becomes...

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  • HIKE AND THE AEROPLANE
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    In early 20th century California, two teenage boys help an eccentric inventor get backing and approval for his innovative aircraft. ...

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  • THE JOB: AN AMERICAN NOVEL
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920s and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania tow...

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  • THE INNOCENTS: A STORY FOR LOVERS
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    An elderly, modest New York couple, 'young-hearted old lovers, Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby', decide on a whim to risk their life savings on opening a roadside cafe in seaside New England. It doesn't work out, but that's just the start of their misfortune. The Innocents (subtitled 'A Story of Lovers') features an unlikely romantic pair of sexagenarian Johnny Appleseeds in a sweet ...

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  • THE TRAIL OF THE HAWK: A COMEDY OF THE SERIOUSNESS OF LIFE
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    The present book 'The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life' is a fictional novel which follows the life of Carl Ericson as he grows up and matures. This novel was written by American novelist; short-story writer; and playwright Sinclair Lewis. It was first published in the year 1915. (Amazon) ...

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  • BABBITT
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930. The novel has been filmed twice, once as a silent in 1924 and remade as a...

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  • MAIN STREET
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown. The novel takes place in the 1910s, with references to the start of World War I, the United States' entry into the war, and the years following the end of the war,...

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  • FREE AIR
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    Free Air is a 1919 novel written by Sinclair Lewis. From a critical perspective, Free Air is consistent with Sinclair Lewis's lean towards egalitarian politics, which he displays in his other works (most notably in It Can't Happen Here). Examples of his politics in Free Air are found in Lewis's emphasis on the heroic role played by the book's protagonist, Milt Dagget, a working...

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  • OUR MR. WRENN THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF A GENTLE MAN
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    In the beginning of the story we meet our "Mr. Wrenn" a very mild, very ordinary American clerk. Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He is described as "a meek little bachelor—a person of inconspicuous blue ready-made suits, and a small unsuccessful mustache, who was always bending over bills and columns of figures at a desk behind the stock room."Mr. W...

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  • MANTRAP
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    A burned-out New York lawyer's vacation in the Canadian wilderness takes a troubled detour in this novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Main Street. Lawyer Frank Prescott is exhausted. The forty-year-old bachelor works late into the night, poring over documents. When he sleeps, he wakes up in a panic. Not even a round of golf at his country club or a Broadway show helps c...

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  • ARROWSMITH
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    This satirical novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of It Can't Happen Here examines medicine in the modern world through the eyes of an idealistic man. The assistant of a small-town midwestern doctor, young Martin Arrowsmith is fascinated with the contents of Gray's Anatomy. Eager to pursue an adventurous career in medicine and science, he eventually sets off for medical sc...

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  • THE JOB
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    A woman strives for both work and love in this early novel from the author of It Can't Happen Here, the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize.  In the early twentieth century, Una Golden leaves her small Pennsylvania hometown and heads to New York City. Her family is struggling, and Una must make money to help. Women in the workplace are not very common—and Una is even m...

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  • MAIN STREET
    SINCLAIR LEWIS
    The classic novel about the downsides of small-town life by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Babbitt and It Can't Happen Here. Carol is a relatively worldly and educated woman, and when she marries a doctor and follows him to his hometown of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, she hopes to put the things she has learned into practice and contribute to the improvement of her new communi...

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