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With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Constance Rourke, and Mark Schorer. Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to reform her small town, brought Lewis immediate acclaim when it was published in 1920. It remains one of the essential texts of the American scene. Lewis Mumford observed: "In Main Street an American had at last written of our life with something of the intellectual rigor and critical detachment that had seemed so cruel and unjustified [in Charles Dickens and Matthew Arnold]. Young people had grown up in this environment, suffocated, stultified, helpless, but unable to find any reason for their spiritual discomfort. Mr. Lewis released them." Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota and graduated from Yale in 1907. In 1930 he became the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Main Street (1920) was his first critical and commercial success. Lewis's other noted books include Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).'
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Main Street
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.5. Seller Inventory # G0451513924I5N00
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Main Street
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Main Street
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Signet Classics October 1961, 1961
ISBN 10: 0451513924
ISBN 13: 9780451513922
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MAIN STREET : A Signet Classic, 451-CE1392
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Signet Classic/New American Library, New York, NY, 1961
ISBN 10: 0451513924
ISBN 13: 9780451513922
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Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Illustrated softcover/VG; Strong & sound w/light edge wear, and a soiled (coffee splash?) to entire back cover. Classic, much admired novel of social change by Minnesota-born, Yale educated 1930 Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951). First published 1920, in terms of time, this novel set in 1910; in terms of place it is Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Its Main Street, Ford cars, movie theater, and railroad station, all symbols of satisfaction common to many states. Enter a newcomer, Carol Kennicott, a college educated librarian, married to the local doctor, who agitates for a new city hall, school, library, public rest rooms, help for the town's poor, and, is a female at that! Locals, inhospitable to her ideas, soon move to scrutinizing her every move for further proof she is weird --- Carol's choice of dress, her mannerisms & daily behavior. A tale of human encounter. 439 pgs, including the Afterword, in 35 chapters. Seller Inventory # 020330
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Condition: Very Good. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Underlining to some pages. Seller Inventory # KMK0000462
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