Main StreetThe first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the small town. But her efforts to reform the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, conventionality, pitifully unambitious cultural endeavors, and—worst of all—the pettiness and bigotry of small-town minds. Lewis’s portrayal of a marriage torn by disillusionment and a woman forced into compromises is at once devastating social satire and persuasive realism. His subtle characterizations and intimate details of small-town America make Main Street a complex and compelling work and established Lewis as an important figure in twentieth-century American literature. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 61
Page viii
... Fellow , p . 268 . Notes on the Antiquities of Dromiskin , Co. Louth ( four Illustrations ) . By Major- General F. W. Stubbs , R.A. , Fellow , p . 271 . Additional List of Megalithic and other Ancient Structures , Barony of Kilmacrenan ...
... Fellow , p . 268 . Notes on the Antiquities of Dromiskin , Co. Louth ( four Illustrations ) . By Major- General F. W. Stubbs , R.A. , Fellow , p . 271 . Additional List of Megalithic and other Ancient Structures , Barony of Kilmacrenan ...
Page 1790
... Fellow of St. John's College , Oxford . Ven . Lord ARTHUR CHARLES HERVEY , M. A. , Archdeacon of Sud- bury , and Rector of Ickworth . Rev. JAMES AUGUSTUS HESSEY , D. C. L. , Head Master of Merchant Taylors ' School . JOSEPH DALTON ...
... Fellow of St. John's College , Oxford . Ven . Lord ARTHUR CHARLES HERVEY , M. A. , Archdeacon of Sud- bury , and Rector of Ickworth . Rev. JAMES AUGUSTUS HESSEY , D. C. L. , Head Master of Merchant Taylors ' School . JOSEPH DALTON ...
Page 5
... Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto- Laryngology . NELSON MILES BLACK , Ph.G. , M.D. , F.A.C.S. , Milwaukee , Wis . Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto- Laryngology ; Author of Examination of ...
... Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto- Laryngology . NELSON MILES BLACK , Ph.G. , M.D. , F.A.C.S. , Milwaukee , Wis . Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto- Laryngology ; Author of Examination of ...
Page 14
... Fellow shall specify the nature of his qualification for election ; and any person who , as such Professor or Reader , or as under- taking to perform such work as aforesaid , shall be elected or become a Fellow of the College , shall ...
... Fellow shall specify the nature of his qualification for election ; and any person who , as such Professor or Reader , or as under- taking to perform such work as aforesaid , shall be elected or become a Fellow of the College , shall ...
Page
... Fellow of , and Lecturer in Modern History at , St John's College , Oxford . Formerly Diet . Fellow and Tutor of Merton College . Craven Scholar , 1895 . Dominic , Saint ; Dominicans . * .4.0.7 DRASI H.L.T 2bq RIGHT REV . EDWARD ...
... Fellow of , and Lecturer in Modern History at , St John's College , Oxford . Formerly Diet . Fellow and Tutor of Merton College . Craven Scholar , 1895 . Dominic , Saint ; Dominicans . * .4.0.7 DRASI H.L.T 2bq RIGHT REV . EDWARD ...
Contents
II | 17 |
III | 27 |
IV | 35 |
V | 46 |
VI | 69 |
VII | 84 |
VIII | 97 |
IX | 110 |
XXII | 269 |
XXIII | 281 |
XXIV | 293 |
XXV | 306 |
XXVI | 325 |
XXVII | 334 |
XXVIII | 342 |
XXIX | 345 |
X | 116 |
XI | 126 |
XII | 140 |
XIII | 162 |
XIV | 171 |
XV | 178 |
XVI | 194 |
XVII | 213 |
XVIII | 223 |
XIX | 235 |
XX | 249 |
XXI | 259 |
XXX | 360 |
XXXI | 375 |
XXXII | 387 |
XXXIII | 396 |
XXXIV | 409 |
XXXV | 423 |
XXXVI | 431 |
XXXVII | 438 |
XXXVIII | 445 |
XXXIX | 451 |
XL | 464 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ain't Aunt Bessie baby Bon Ton Bresnahan Carol chair Champ Perry church Clark coat Cy Bogart dance darn Dave Dyer Dawson dear doctor door Erik eyes farmers fellow felt Fern folks girl Gopher Prairie gray guess Guy Pollock hand Harry Haydock hate heard Hugh husband Jack Elder Jolly Seventeen Juanita Haydock Kennicott kitchen knew lake laughed Leonard Warren Lewis live looked Main Street Maud Dyer McGa McGanum Miles Bjornstam Minneapolis motor Nat Hicks never nice play porch pretty Raymie Rita Simons Sam Clark Sauk Centre Sinclair Lewis smiled stared story Stowbody supper sure talk tell Thanatopsis there's things thought town trying Valborg Vida Sherwin village waiting walk Westlake wife window woman women wonder young