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Title	:	Main Street
Author	:	Sinclair Lewis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 454 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2000 by Modern Library (first published 1920)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature. American. Novels. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classic Literature

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

Paperback | Pages: 454 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 23463 Users | 1055 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	Main Street
ISBN:	0375753141 (ISBN13: 9780375753145)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Carol Milford, Will Kennicott
Setting:	Minnesota,1910(United States)

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"Main Street": The title alone invokes placid images of the most tranquil pockets of middle America. And Sinclair Lewis could hardly have picked a name more suggestive of rustic simplicity and provinciality than Gopher Prairie for the Minnesota town that is the setting of his novel. Gopher Prairie is supposed to be a prototype of thousands of American small towns in the early decades of the twentieth century, paradise for those who like to cling comfortably to convention, unbearable for those

I read this many, many years ago and remember that I didn't like it at all. Boring.

This book was intensely personal to me so much so that I found myself closing the book so I could just stare at the wall and think at points. The plot concerns the struggles of a woman, Carol, against the strange omniscience and rigidity of a small Midwestern town. She is a city-girl who marries a country doctor and optimistically sets out for a new life on the prairie, circa World War I. Upon settling in, she realizes that her ideas for improving the town through the introduction of high

On page 25 I thought this guy is brilliant.On page 50 I thought this guy is exhaustively brilliant.On page 100 I thought Im exhausted.On page 150 I thought Ill never get out of this novel alive.On page 200 I thought so who knew there could be so much DETAIL about every last possible aspect of one teensy Minnesotan town lodged inside the Tardis-like head of Sinclair Lewis?On page 213 my eye fell upon this :Its the worst defeat of all. Im beaten. By Main Street. I must go on. But I cant!

you're welcome! after this one you deserve a break!

I was dimly aware of Sinclair Lewis but completely unfamiliar with his work when I read John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley: In Search of America a couple of years ago. Steinbeck, who admired Lewis, wanted to find his way from St Paul to Sauk Centre, Lewis' Minnesota hometown and the town on which the fictional location of this novel, Gopher Prairie, is based. He recounts his conversation with a waitress in a diner who gave him directions to the town: "They got a sign up. I guess quite a few

"A bomb to blow up smugness" is what one woman hopefully calls her child in Sinclair Lewis's broadside attack on mainstream America, and that's surely what this book is.I didn't know a book can be quiet and bombastic at the same time, but Lewis has written it. It covers just over a decade in Carol Milford's life, as her dreams are repeatedly drowned. She comes to Main Street, America, with grand plans to mean something in a dimly socialist way. Main Street is having none of it.Lewis has a