false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11376.jpg 11376 72 With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker,<br>H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West,<br>Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Constance Rourke, and Mark Schorer<br><br>Main Street is the climax of civilization," Sinclair Lewis declared with a typical blend of seriousness and irony. "That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters." Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to reform her small town, brought Lewis immediate acclaim when it was published in 1920. It remains one of the essential texts of the American scene. Lewis Mumford observed: "In Main Street an American had at last written of our life with something of the intellectual rigor and critical detachment that had seemed so cruel and unjustified [in Charles Dickens and Matthew Arnold]. Young people had grown up in this environment, suffocated, stultified, helpless, but unable to find any reason for their spiritual discomfort. Mr. Lewis released them."<br><br>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. Main Street (1920) was his first critical and commercial success. Lewis's other noted books include Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935). 2772489 book 1920 Main Street (Modern Library (Paperback)) total:1473|5:278|4:559|3:439|2:147|1:50| 1473 5287 2259 160 11376 0375753141 9780375753145 1168 119 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11376.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11376.Main_Street 3 3 false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 17:20:39 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 15:29:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 774239 0451526821 9780451526823 66 8 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178233803m/774239.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/774239.Main_Street 5 2 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Tue Mar 04 07:55:44 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 07:58:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 11376 0375753141 9780375753145 1168 119 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11376.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11376.Main_Street 5 2 false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 18:06:11 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 08:35:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 11376 0375753141 9780375753145 1168 119 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11376.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11376.Main_Street 3 1 false Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 28 10:16:12 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 18 15:04:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 11376 0375753141 9780375753145 1168 119 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11376.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11376.Main_Street 4 1 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 08:36:33 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 14:34:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 11376 0375753141 9780375753145 1168 119 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469979m/11376.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11376.Main_Street 5 1 false Wed Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 16:26:48 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 16:36:28 -0700 2008
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