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1) Babbitt
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English
Description
At once a conformist and a rebel, George F. Babbitt represents an ordinary man whose life turns upside down during one of the most profound sea changes in American cultural history: the mechanization and hucksterism of the Roaring Twenties.
2) Main Street
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Language
English
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Description
Features the story of a college graduate from St. Paul who leaves to marry a doctor in a small, middle-class town, only to find her efforts to bring culture and beauty to the town thwarted by its residents, testing her idealism.
3) Free Air
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
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Description
One of the earliest road-trip novels, Free Air tells the story of Claire Boltwood, who travels from New York City to the Pacific Northwest by automobile. She leaves her rich, snobbish family behind and falls in love with a good, down-to-earth man.
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English
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A New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this classic work by the author of Babbit, Arrowsmith, and Main Street that prophesizes the coming of totalitarianism in the United States.
"It 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...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
American writer Sinclair Lewis was interested in the social implications of the aggressive brand of capitalism that began to emerge in the U. S. the early twentieth century. In The Job, he focuses on the rising stature of women in the workforce, detailing the triumphs and travails of a young woman named Una Golden, who discovers that she has an inborn talent for real estate—and that she must fight against the nearly overwhelming chauvinism
...7) Elmer Gantry
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Language
English
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Description
"This novel 'deals with a brazen ex-football player who enters the ministry and, through his half-plagiarized sermons, his physical attractiveness, and his unerring instinct for promotion, becomes a successful evangelist and later the leader of a large Middle Western church. Carefully researched, the novel was realistic enough to shock both the faithful and the unfaithful.'" Reader's Ency. 3d edition. *** "Biting satire on the Protestant churches...
10) Dodsworth
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Yielding to the wishes of his spoiled wife, a wealthy American industrialist abandons his ideals to enter the frivolous world of European high society.
11) Elmer Gantry
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Lancaster stars as Gantry, a charismatic preacher who promises eternal salvation, but who personally pursues wealth and power.
