Sinclair Lewis

The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Middle West. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to the ways of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. This groundbreaking novel attacks conformism, commercialism, moneygrubbing, and the decline in what Lewis saw as the American ideals of freedom and respect for individuality.

Sinclair Lewis' first novel. A charming and insightful story of innocence abroad. Our Mr. Wrenn is as good an example of an American archetype as Tom Joad and Jay Gatsby.

Thirteen stories feature romantic fantasy, adventure, romance, satire, and emotional sketches.

Screenplay of a Western story with technical terms translated into narrative story telling. Written for MGM, yet never filmed, it is an allegory of the World War.

Samuel Dodsworth, a retired automobile manufacturer, is dragged to Europe by his frivolous wife, Fran, who throws herself into a series of love affairs with European adventurers. Dodsworth ultimately rebels and leaves his wife for a more mature woman.

After years of work as a small town doctor and a research scientist, Arrowsmith heads for the West Indies with a serum to halt an epidemic. A tragic turn of events forces him to come to terms with his career and his personal life.

Virga Vay and Allan Cedar / Sinclair Lewis -- Should Wizard Hit Mommy? / John Updike -- Hop-Frog / Edgar Allan Poe -- Sense of Humor / Damon Runyon -- Johny Dio and the Sugar Plum Burglars / Harry D. Miller -- [A Rose for Emily]( / William Faulkner The Boarded Window / Ambrose Bierce.

Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for the first time, the best crime fiction from the gaslight era gathered in a single volume. All the legendary thieves are present - from Colonel Clay to Get Rich Quick Wallingford - burgling London and Paris, conning New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank. Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, and William Hope Hodgson.

About a man named Hayden Chart from Colorado. His wife was killed in an automobile accident. He takes a trip to Italy for the year. While there he meets a woman named Olivia Lomond, Hayden falls in love with her, but another man starts to take Olivia away form him. Hayden trys very hard through out the book to blend in with the Italian society by learning Italian.

It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical American political novel published in 1935. It's Plot centers around newspaperman Doremus Jessup's struggle against the fascist regime of America' new president, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip. Windripis elected on a platform promising to restore prosperity and $5,000 a year for all citizens. Once in office, however, he becomes a dictator, among other things, putting his enemies in concentration camps.

Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown]( by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]( by Ambrose Bierce ... - [A Pair of Silk Stockings]( by Kate Chopin - [The Cask of Amontillado]( - [Fall of the House of Usher]( - [The Glass Menagerie]( by Tennesse Williams

Free Air heads toward a West that was brimming with possibilities for suddenly mobile Americans at the end of a world war. The vehicle in Lewis's novel, not a Model T but a Gomez-Dep roadster, takes Claire Boltwood and her father from Minnesota to Seattle, exposing them all to the perils of early motoring.

The story of George F. Babbitt, booster, one hundred percenter, a hustling, prosperous real-estate broker in an average American city.

"Edited for publication by Lewis scholar George Killough, Minnesota Diary, 1942-46 makes available an inside view of Lewis; a quieter side, more introspective and self-aware. It reveals Lewis's connections to Minnesota and rural life through his interest in weather, sensitivity to the landscape, and stoic silence about loss."--BOOK JACKET.