Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis and published in 1920. In July 1920 in a Washington heat wave Sinclair Lewis finished Main Street.
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Letters of Sinclair Lewis 1919-1930 was published in 1952 one year after his death in Rome.
Sinclair lewis main street. In this sense Main Street a novel about the village virus is also an autobiography of Sinclair Lewiss spiritual development or rather spiritual stagnation. Lewiss Main Street ridiculed the monotonous unnatural or hypocritical life in a small town in Gopher Prairie Minnesota. About Main Street The first of Sinclair Lewiss great successes Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism.
Main Street with its two-story brick shops its story-and-a-half wooden residences its muddy expanse from concrete walk to walk its huddle of Fords and lumber-wagons was too small to absorb her. SINCLAIR LEWIS _MAIN STREET_ 1920 CH. Sinclair Lewis had been a frequent visitor to Williamstown Massachusetts.
The Story of Carol Kennicott is a satiric attack on small-town life. As an author Sinclair Lewis received national and international recognition through his profound display of American life and his criticism of American materialism and pretentiousness. Main Street became a household word both in the United States and abroad within a few years after the publication of Sinclair Lewis widely read novel.
Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre Minnesota Lewiss sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. In the 1920s a large component of Americas middle class sought a more liberal identity. They insinuate their tyranny under a hundred guises and pompous names such as Polite Society the Family the Church Sound Business the Party the Country the Superior.
36-39 EXCERPTS Carol leaves Gopher Prairie Now an American classic Sinclair Lewiss best-selling novel Main Street became the decades statement of the city-town divide in America. The broad straight unenticing gashes of the streets let in the grasping prairie on every side. From Main Street to Stockholm.
Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis and published in 1920. In the business of authorship he seldom put a foot wrong. From Nobel Lectures Literature 1901-1967 Editor Horst Frenz Elsevier Publishing Company Amsterdam 1969.
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Satirizing small town life Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewiss most famous book and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. Sinclair Lewiss Main Street published in 1920 tells the story of Carol Milford a clever and ambitious young woman who at college harbours dreams of a career as a town planner. In 1946 he rented Thorvale Farm on Oblong Road.
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Satirizing small town life Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewiss most famous book and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. The year 1921 was highlighted by an outburst of favorable and unfavorable reactions to this novel. The book satirizes the ugliness and conformity found in small Midwest towns during the second decade of the twentieth century and ridicules the uninspired and self-satisfied inhabitants.
He gave the book to his friend Alfred Harcourt who had started a new publishing house to be known in time as Harcourt Brace in which Lewis had invested some of his own money. On July 17 1920 Sinclair Lewis delivered the finished manuscript of Main Street to Alfred Harcourt in the hope that it would sell 10000 copies. By Sinclair Lewis Main Street is a satirical novel about small-town life and is notable for the presence of a strong female protagonist.
Sinclair Lewiss Main Street published in 1920 tells the story of Carol Milford a clever and ambitious young woman who at college harbours dreams of a career as a town planner. Modeling his fictional Midwestern town on his real Minnesota home town Lewis. However she marries a doctor who persuades her to settle with him in Gopher Prairie Minnesota.
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