![]() Main Street (1920) was his first critical and commercial success. The first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender roles, and small town life, Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.Ĭontributor Bio(s): Lewis, Sinclair: - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), was born in Sauk Centre, Minne-sota, and graduated from Yale in 1907 in 1930 he became the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. ![]() Reading Level: 8.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 30.0 ![]() ![]() Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: This famous novel of life on Main Street, Gopher Prairie, mirrors with devastating honesty life on Main Streets from Albany to San Diego.Ĭlick for more in this series: HBJ Modern Classic ![]()
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