Sinclair Lewis

Gebundenes Buch

Main Street (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Beschreibung

The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, a fictionalised version of Lewis' hometown. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Kennicott as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents of Gopher Prairie.

Autor

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 - January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. At the age of 13, he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War. In late 1902, Lewis left home to attend Oberlin Academy in order to qualify for acceptance at Yale University. Lewis' first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane, a Tom Swift-style potboiler that appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham. He is best known for his novels Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).Compared to his contemporaries, Lewis's reputation suffered a precipitous decline among literary scholars throughout the 20th century. Despite his enormous popularity during the 1920s, by the 21st century most of his works had been eclipsed in prominence by other writers with less commercial success during the same time period, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Since the 2010s there has been renewed interest in Lewis's work, in particular his 1935 dystopian satire It Can't Happen Here. In the aftermath of the 2016 United States presidential election, It Can't Happen Here surged to the top of Amazon's list of best-selling books. Scholars have found eerie parallels in his novels to the COVID-19 crisis, and to the rise of Donald Trump. His works are known for their critical views of American capitalism and materialism in the interwar period. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Engage Books
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781774769355
• ISBN-10: 1774769352
• Artikelnr.: 66499077