Such is our comfortable tradition and sure faith. In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial. In the sensitive art of the Rosebud Movie Palace there is a Message, and humor strictly moral. Sam Clark's annual hardware turnover is the envy of the four counties which constitute God's Country. Our railway station is the final aspiration of architecture. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Main Street. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Main Street is the climax of civilization. Main Street - Ebook written by Sinclair Lewis. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. The town is, in our tale, called 'Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.' But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. Blue cloth binding with orange lettering and cover decoration. Chapter 1 The reader is introduced to Carol Milford, a beautiful, young woman trying to find her place in the world. Main Street.New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, General Fiction. Sinclair Lewis - Main Street Grosset & Dunlap, 1920. Main Street is a satirical novel about small-town life, and is notable for the presence of a strong female protagonist. In 1930 Lewis would be the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. This is America-a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. First published in 1920, Main Street is Sinclair Lewis first major novel, and was a phenomenal success at the time.

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