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Sinclair Lewis Boxed Set – 16 titles in One Volume
Babbitt, Main Street, The Trail of the Hawk, Moths in the Arc Light, Nature, Inc., The Cat of the Stars and more
2018
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This carefully crafted ebook: "Sinclair Lewis Boxed Set" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Babbitt Free Air Main Street The Trail of the Hawk The Innocents The Job Our Mr. Wrenn Things Moths in the Arc Light The Willow Walk Nature, Inc. The Cat of the Stars The Ghost Patrol The Kidnaped Memorial Speed Young Man Axelbrod
2017
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It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who resembles Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders.
2018
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It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who resembles Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders.
2022
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Published in 1925, Arrowsmith is the story of Martin Arrowsmith, a gifted scientist making his way from a small Midwestern town to the apex of the scientific community. Arrowsmith follows the titular character from medical school through stints as a small-town doctor and regional health official to his discovery of a virus that destroys bacteria.Arrowsmith was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but the award was declined by the author. It has bee...
2021
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This satirical novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of It Can't Happen Here examines medicine in the modern world through the eyes of an idealistic man.The assistant of a small-town midwestern doctor, young Martin Arrowsmith is fascinated with the contents of Gray's Anatomy. Eager to pursue an adventurous career in medicine and science, he eventually sets off for medical school, where he hopes to dedicate himself to research. But as Martin prog...
2009
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This file includes: Our Mr. Wrenn (1914), The Trail of the Hawk (1915), The Innocents (1917), The Job (1917), Free Air (1919), Main Street (1920), and Babbitt (1922). According to Wikipedia: "Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 January 10, 1951) was an Ame
2025
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Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis is a provocative and incisive novel that exposes the hypocrisies and moral corruption within American religious life in the 1920s. The story follows Elmer Gantry, a charming, ambitious, and unscrupulous young man who rises through the ranks of the evangelical movement. Outwardly pious and charismatic, Gantry exploits faith for personal gain, weaving a web of manipulation, deception, and scandal. Through Gantry’s journey, Lewis critiques the commercialization ...
2026
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Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a groundbreaking work of American literature that offers a sharp, insightful, and often humorous portrait of small-town life in the early twentieth century. First published in 1920, the novel became an immediate success and is widely regarded as one of the most influential social critiques of American culture. The story follows Carol Milford Kennicott, a bright, idealistic young woman who dreams of improving society through culture, beauty, and progressive ...
2014
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“The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—SalonIt Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s a...
2019
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Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized the generation in which it was written, causing Sinclair Lewis to be "invited" to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of an evangelist who rises to power within his church - a saver of souls who lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence - has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been writ...
2009
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Written by by American author Sinclair Lewis, 'It Can't Happen Here' is a semi-satirical political novel. It was first published in the year 1935, during the rise of fascism in Europe. It describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a politician who defeats Franklin Delano Roosevelt and is elected President of the United States, after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and "traditional" values.
2008
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The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the sm...