false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg 11374 1 Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to explore middle-class life in America as no writer had done before. These remarkable novels combine biting satire with an lingering affection for the men and women who, as he wrote of Babbitt, want to "seize something more than motor cars and a house before it's too late." "Main Street" was a phenomenal event in American publishing and cultural history; it is a wry, sad, funny account of a woman who attempts to challenge the hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness of her Midwestern community where the romance of the frontier has dwindled to drab reality. "He is America incarnate, exuberant and exqusite," H.L. Mencken said of George Babbitt. With this boisterous, vulgar, gadget-loving real estate man, Lewis fashioned a new and enduring figure in American literature, the total conformist--and captured the noisy restlessness of American commercial culture. 13841 1 9 1992 Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Library of America) total:30|5:10|4:9|3:10|2:1|1:0| 30 118 59 4 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 5 0 false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 09:41:18 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 09:42:48 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 5 0 false Thu Sep 11 20:13:52 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 20:13:52 -0700 2008
This particular bound version (I was reading Babbitt on my iPhone, via Stanza-when-it-didn't-crash-which-it-pretty-much-always-did) has the most perfect font and crispiest most rugged-translucent paper of the three I tried out, today.]]> 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 4 0 false Mon Sep 22 10:31:38 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 10:32:17 -0700 2008 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 5 0 false Sat Mar 08 04:22:20 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 04:26:33 -0800 2008 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 0 0 false Tue Dec 08 03:06:43 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 03:06:43 -0800 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 4 0 false Tue Nov 03 22:12:46 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 23:21:32 -0800 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 5 0 false Fri Oct 16 07:10:59 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 07:10:59 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 4 0 false Fri Oct 02 13:04:38 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 13:04:38 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 0 0 false Wed Sep 30 14:10:50 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 14:10:50 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 0 0 false Tue Sep 22 15:09:11 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 15:44:27 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 0 0 false Wed Sep 16 11:11:40 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 11:11:40 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 0 0 false Sat Aug 29 12:50:27 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 12:50:27 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 0 0 false Tue Aug 04 20:00:17 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 20:00:17 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 0 0 false Mon Jul 20 18:05:37 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 18:05:37 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 0 0 false Thu Jul 16 19:45:03 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 19:45:03 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 0 0 false Sun Jul 12 16:47:20 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 16:47:20 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 3 0 false Wed Jul 08 16:41:56 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 16:41:56 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 0 0 false Wed Jul 08 12:52:34 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 12:52:34 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 5 0 false Fri Jun 05 04:03:35 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 04:03:35 -0700 2009 11374 0940450615 9780940450615 30 4 3.93 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11374.Lewis_Main_Street_and_Babbitt 2 0 false Wed May 27 09:06:42 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 09:06:42 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=11374