Sinclair Lewis
1) Babbitt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Babbitt turns the spotlight on middle America and strips bare the hypocrisy of business practice, social mores, politics, and religious institutions. In his introduction and notes Gordon Hutner explores the novel's historical and literary contexts, and highlights its rich cultural and social references. --from publisher description
2) Arrowsmith
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
The story of a doctor whose struggles to maintain integrity cost him positions as an instructor, a practicing physician, and a research pathologist.
4) Elmer Gantry
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in English in 1927, "Elmer Gantry" is Sinclair Lewis' novel which satirizes the Christian fundamentalist and evangelistic movements of the early part of the 20th century. From the 17th century onward there have been a number of efforts to reassert the influence of Christianity on social, cultural, and political life. In America, Christian Revivalism, as it is often referred to, has come in four waves, or "Great Awakenings" starting...
Author
Language
English
Description
<p>Meet Sam Dodsworth, an amiable fifty-year-old millionaire and "American Captain of Industry, believing in the Republican Party, high tariffs and, so long as they did not annoy him personally, in Prohibition and the Episcopal Church." Dodsworth runs an auto manufacturing firm, but his beautiful wife, Fran, obsessed with the notion that she is growing old, persuades him to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. He agrees for...
10) Main Street
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Describes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact that she lives in a small, self-satisfied, midwestern town.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 59
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 133
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Anthony Di Renzo makes available for the first time since their original publication some eighty years ago a collection of fifteen of Sinclair Lewis's early business stories.
Among Lewis's funniest satires, these stories introduce the characters, themes, and techniques that would evolve into Babbitt. Each selection reflects the commercial culture of Lewis's day, particularly Reason Why advertising, self-help manuals, and the business fiction of the...
20) Arrowsmith
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1931
Language
English
Description
Happily married country doctor Martin Arrowsmith leaves his small practice for the prospects of wealth and important medical research at New York City's esteemed McGurk Institute and finds himself faced with an intense workload, a romance-minded socialite, and a plague outbreak.