Main Street - Sinclair Lewis - 1920
Introduction
Sinclair Lewis's Main Street (1920) was the first best-selling American novel of the century, selling almost 300,000 copies in its first year of...
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To James Branch Cabell and Joseph Hergesheimer
This is America—a town of a few thousand,
in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little
groves.
The town is, in our tale, called &ldquo...
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Biography EssayThe career of Sinclair Lewis is impressive in its presumption, range, and achievement. He undertook to reflect in his novels the distresses felt by a generation trying to find its way i...
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Although Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was the most celebrated American literary figure of the 1920s, his popular, mildly satirical novels today are valued mainly for their sociohistorical relevanc...
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The career of Sinclair Lewis is impressive in its presumption, range, and achievement. He undertook to reflect in his novels the distresses felt by a generation trying to find its way in a period of...
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The literary reputation of Sinclair Lewis rests on his best novels, which depict and often penetrate the confusion caused by America's change from a rural to an urban, industrial culture. Lewis's 12...
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In the book Main Street by Sinclair Lewis; Lewis portrays Carol, in nature, as a strong person; however, in circumstances where she is criticized or humiliated she reacts in a weak way.
Carol proves h...
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Main Street, written by Harry Sinclair Lewis, is an attempt to explore and expose the narrow-mindedness, mediocrity, and conformity of small-town America in the beginnings of the twentieth century. L...
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Teaching Main Street
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The walls are bare, the closets are empty, and Connie and Timothy Pent and their two teenage children are living out of boxes as they wait for a dreaded knock at the door of their three-bedroom hou...
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Wall Street players aren't the only ones with a lot riding on whether the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates on Tuesday _ Main Street could also see some pretty dramatic benefits.Policy makers are...
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The mixed reviews Barack Obama got from his audience this morning may have been just what he was looking for.
In midtown to deliver a speech to Wall Street executives at the Nasdaq corporate headq...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The credit crisis may be
fouling up billion-dollar takeover deals, but if you're a poor
African seamstress who needs a loan for a new sewing machine,
you could not ask for a b...
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The mixed reviews Barack Obama got from his audience this morning may have been just what he was looking for.
In midtown to deliver a speech to Wall Street executives at the Nasdaq corporate headq...
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Sydney (dpa) - Unrestricted trading hours have allowed Sydney's
large shopping centres to choke the life out of surrounding retail
strips, the Sydney Morning Herald newspape...
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America's architecture first grew out of the land. It grew out of the weather, the rivers, the trees, the stone, and those who came to settle. It grew out of a need for both utility and beauty. The...
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