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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...

Never Quit Climbing is a book about hope, guidance, wisdom and the determination to overcome. Using principles gleaned in actual hiking and climbing, Gary Sinclair takes the reader through a personal journey of learning to as a young person love and value the mountains to the moment years later when his wife Jackie heard that she had stage three colorectal cancer. Ironically, she had just accomplished her first fourteen thousand foot summit three months before her diagnosis.During ...

Online abuse in sport has become a pervasive global challenge, affecting athletes, teams, officials, and sporting communities across all levels of competition. Despite growing awareness, scholarly attention has largely concentrated on hate speech, leaving other critical forms of abuse underexplored. This open access edited collection addresses this gap by offering a comprehensive examination of the multifaceted nature of online abuse in sport, structured around seven categories identified ...

All 19 episodes of the BBC radio comedy about an aspiring actor with dreams of stardomYoung actor Robert Wilson is desperately seeking work – and he’s prepared to do almost anything for his big break. He’s convinced that he’s only one audition away from fame and fortune: but while he builds castles in the air, his agent Desmond and girlfriend Sue try their best to bring him back down to earth.In these three series, Robert gets a part as a chauffeur (except ...

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

This file includes: Novels -- Damaged Goods, based on the play "Les Avaries" by Eugene Brieux, 1913; Jimmie Higgins, 1919; The Jungle, 1906; King Coal, 1917; King Midas, a Romance, 1901; Love's Pilgrimage, 1911; The Metropolis, 1908; The Moneychangers, 1908; 100%: The Story of a Patriot, 1920; Samuel the Seeker, 1909; Sylvia's Marriage, 1915; They Call Me Carpenter, a Tale of the Second Coming, 1922; Non-Fiction -- The Profits of Religion: an Essay in Economic Interpretation, 1917; Plays -...

This file includes: Sister Carrie (1900), Jennie Gerhardt (1911), The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914, and Twelve Men (1919). According to Wikipedia: "Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of natur...

This book-collection file includes 13 novels (Touchstone, Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, House of Mirth, Fruit of the Tree, Ethan Frome, The Reef, the Custom of the Country, Bunner Sisters, Summer, Age of Innocence, Glimpses of the Moon), 6 collections of stories (Crucial Instances, The Greater Inclination, Tales of Men and Ghosts, The Hermit and the Wild Woman, The Descent of Man, and Eleven Stories by Edith Wharton), a book of verse (Artemis to Actaeon), and two non-fiction books (Fighti...

Samuel ('Sam') Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer, who builds his fortunes in fictional Zenith, Winnemac. In addition to his success in the business world, he had also succeeded as a young man in winning the hand of Frances 'Fran' Voelker, a beautiful young socialite...

Now regarded as one of the pioneers of realist fiction, the early nineteenth century author Stendhal is celebrated for his acute analysis of character psychology. This attractive eBook presents the works of Stendhal, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Stendhal's life and works* Concise introductions to...

Victor Hugo, the greatest Romantic writer of them all, is finally available in Delphi’s bestselling range of titles. This monumental eBook offers readers the most complete collection ever compiled of Hugo’s FICTIONAL works in English translation, with many bonus texts. (Version 2)* concise introductions to the novels and other works* images of how the novels first appeared, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* ALL 9 novels in English, each with contents ...

Harry Sinclair Lewis (7th February, 1885 10th January, 1951) was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930 "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters." Whilst an accurate description of his writing it misses the tone and central theme of his work which is clearer from his own words in accepting the Prize: “America is the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any lan...