Main Street
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Sinclair Lewis
Published in 1920, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis’s most famous book and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Told from the perspective of Carol Kennicott, a young woman married to a Midwestern doctor who settles in the small Minnesota town of Gopher Prairie, the novel satirizes small-town life as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents of Gopher Prairie. After reading a book about village improvement in a sociology class while in college, she begins dreaming of redesigning villages and towns. After settling in her husband’s hometown she quickly comes to disdain the town’s physical appearance and conservatism and sets out to remake Gopher Prairie.
Dismissed by the town’s residents, she finds companionship among the social outsiders in the town, but they also fail to live up to her expectations.
Occasionally criticized as going beyond satire and becoming mean-spirited, the satire cuts both ways, directed against both the townspeople and the smug, superficial pseudo-intellectualism of those who despise them.
Highly acclaimed upon publication and generally recognized as a classic of American literature, the detailed rendering of local speech, customs, and social conventions and vivid depictions of characters have propelled Main Street’s enduring popularity.
Not a machine-scanned reproduction of an old version, this quality large print volume is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover. Prepared by human editors, it includes the complete text of Sinclair Lewis’ classic American novel in a freshly formatted edition.
Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951) was an American writer primarily known as a novelist. His first major novel, Main Street (1920), was a phenomenal success, ultimately selling an estimated two million copies and earning Lewis over three million dollars within the first few years of its release. A sardonic look at small-town life, Main Street was followed by five more very successful novels: Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can’t Happen Here (1935). In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded for “his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.”
Product details
Publisher: Apex Publications, Independently published (April 4, 2024)
Language: English
Paperback: 668 pages
ISBN: 979-8320890425
Item Weight: 3.2 pounds
Dimensions: 7.44 x 1.51 x 9.69 inches
List Price: $26.97
