by Sinclair Lewis · Barnes & Noble · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781593080365
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«Main Street» is Sinclair Lewis's satirical novel, published in the Barnes & Noble Classics collection in paperback (526 pages, in English).
The work follows Carol Milford, a cultured and ambitious woman who moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, after marrying a doctor. There she clashes with the closed-minded and self-satisfied mentality of her neighbors while trying to introduce cultural and social reforms; through this conflict, Sinclair Lewis portrays life in rural America at the beginning of the 20th century and criticizes the conformity, narrow-mindedness and hypocrisy of the American lower middle class.
Edition from the Barnes & Noble Classics series with an introduction and notes by Brooke Allen; the volume includes critical apparatus and supporting material for the reader.
Aimed at students and general readers who want an annotated and affordable edition of a classic of American literature.
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
