Main Street
The Story of Carol Kennicott
The 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 p…
Mehr
CHF 7.10
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Bucco, Martin (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-101-64023-4
- EAN: 9781101640234
- Produktnummer: 18000940
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 564 KB
Über den Autor
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1930, the first American novelist to be so honored. He was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the son of a doctor. After an extremely unhappy childhood, he went to Yale but left before graduation to work in Upton Sinclair's socialist colony at Helicon Hall in Englewood, New Jersey. Unable to make a living as a freelance writer, he returned to Yale and graduated in 1908. In 1914 he published his first novel, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man. But it was not until his sixth novel, Main Street (1920), that he won recognition as an important American novelist, the first to challenge the myth of the happy quintessentially American small town. His major works are Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), which won a Pulitzer Prize that Lewis refused to accept, Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935), which he also wrote as a play in 1936. Married and divorced twice, the second time to pioneering newspaperwoman Dorothy Thompson, Lewis was a prolific writer, publishing dozens of books and innumerable articles throughout his career. He died alone in Rome on January 10, 1951, and his ashes were returned to Sauk Centre, the Main Street” he'd rejected so many decades before but which in death took him back as its own.
100 weitere Werke von Sinclair Lewis:
50 Chefs-D'ouvre Que Vous Devez Lire Avant De Mourir : Vol 1 (Golden Deer Classics)
The Story of Carol Kennicott
The Story of Carol Kennicott
Ebook (EPUB Format)
CHF 2.55
Bewertungen
Anmelden