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  • It Can't Happen Here

    It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who resembles Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political movements akin to Nazism can ... Read more

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  • Sinclair Lewis - Ultimate Collection

    Enriched edition. 40 + Titles: Complete Novels & Short Stories

    The "Sinclair Lewis - Ultimate Collection" represents a comprehensive anthology of Lewis's influential works, offering readers an in-depth exploration of early 20th-century American life through a lens of sharp social critique and biting satirical prose. With his keen observations and masterful storytelling, Lewis weaves tales that interrogate the complexities of capitalism, conformity, and the ... Read more

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  • Babbitt

    Enriched edition. American Nobel Prize Winner

    In "Babbitt," Sinclair Lewis crafts a scathing satire of American middle-class life in the 1920s, encapsulating the era's social mores through the experiences of George F. Babbitt, a prosperous yet unfulfilled real estate agent. The novel employs a sharp, ironic tone and vivid imagery to explore themes such as conformity, materialism, and the quest for individual identity amidst societal ... Read more

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  • Main Street

    Main Street is the book that first established Sinclair Lewis’s reputation as an important writer is both a satire and an affectionate portrait of Gopher Prairie, a typical American town, which was undoubtedly suggested by Sauk Centre, Minnesota, where Lewis was born.The heroine, Carol Kennicott, chafes at the dullness and sterility of her existence as the wife of the local doctor, and she tries ... Read more

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  • Babbitt

    Babbitt 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 book has twice been adapted to film. ... Read more

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  • It Can't Happen Here

    “The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—SalonIt Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.Written during the Great Depression, when the country was ... Read more

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  • Babbitt

    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 word Babbitt entered the English language as a "person and especially a business or ... Read more

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  • Arrowsmith (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Pulitzer Prize Novel

    Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith is a searching novel of scientific vocation, following Martin Arrowsmith from medical school through private practice, public health work, and bacteriological research. Written in Lewis's lucid realist style, sharpened by satire and documentary detail, it examines the conflict between pure inquiry and institutional ambition. In the context of early twentieth-century ... Read more

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  • Main Street

    This classic by Sinclair Lewis shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire. “Main Street” attacks the conformity and dullness of early 20th century midwestern village life in the story of Carol Milford, the city girl who marries the town doctor. Her efforts to bring culture to the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, and petty small-minded ... Read more

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  • 30 Humorous Masterpieces you have to read before you die

    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions [Edwin Abbott Abbott] Lady Susan [Jane Austen] R. Holmes & Co. [John Kendrick Bangs] Mrs. Raffles [John Kendrick Bangs] The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr] Love Insurance [Earl Derr Biggers] The Mirror of Kong Ho [Ernest Bramah Smith] The Ghost-Extinguisher [Frank ... Read more

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  • Arrowsmith

    Published in 1925, Arrowsmith is the story of Martin Arrowsmith, a gifted scientist making his way from a small Midwestern town to the apex of the scientific community. Arrowsmith follows the titular character from medical school through stints as a small-town doctor and regional health official to his discovery of a virus that destroys bacteria.Arrowsmith was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for ... Read more

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  • Babbitt (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. American Nobel Prize Winner

    Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt is a penetrating satire of American middle-class life in the prosperous, standardized 1920s. Centered on George F. Babbitt, a successful real-estate broker in the fictional city of Zenith, the novel anatomizes boosterism, conformity, consumer desire, civic hypocrisy, and the uneasy emptiness beneath material comfort. Its style combines documentary realism with sharp comic ... Read more

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