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Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be "invited" to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church-a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence-is also the record of a period, a reign of gro...

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Practise what you preach." Meet Elmer Gantry- a hypocritical preacher in relentless pursuit of worldly pleasure and power. Gantry is a goldentongued evangelist who rises to power within his church-a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless selfindulgence. Sinclair Lewis, through this satiric examination of evangelical religion, has aptly captured the growing cultural and political tension during the 1920s between ...

Sinclair Lewis's barbed portrait of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the myth of the American Middle West as God's Country and became a symbol of the cultural narrowmindedness and smug complacency of small towns everywhere. Carol Kennicott, the wife of a town doctor, dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community. This book takes the reader on her journey through the small town mindset and her strug...

The most widely known of Sinclair Lewis's novels, Arrowsmith, is an incisive depiction of a man committed to science. Martin Arrowsmith, a bright, interested young man from a small Midwestern town, spends his leisure time in old Doc Vickerson's office, eagerly consuming medical texts. He is destined to be a surgeon and researcher, but he learns that societal forces of ignorance, greed, and corruption may be just as deadly as the epidemic. Lew...

Practise what you preach." Meet Elmer Gantry- a hypocritical preacher in relentless pursuit of worldly pleasure and power. Gantry is a goldentongued evangelist who rises to power within his church-a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless selfindulgence. Sinclair Lewis, through this satiric examination of evangelical religion, has aptly captured the growing cultural and political tension during the 1920s between...

Sinclair Lewis's barbed portrait of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the myth of the American Middle West as God's Country and became a symbol of the cultural narrowmindedness and smug complacency of small towns everywhere. Carol Kennicott, the wife of a town doctor, dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community. This book takes the reader on her journey through the small town mindset and her strug...

Love or lifestyle? Samuel 'Sam' Dodsworth, an ambitious and innovative automobile designer paves his way to success and a fortune in the USA. In addition to his affluence in business, he manages to win the hand of Frances 'Fran' Voelker, a beautiful young socialite. However, the tide turns when he seeks an early retirement and sets off on a trip to Europe with his wife. Will this trip be everything that he imagined it to be? Set in the late 1...

In WORK OF ART three generations of the Weagle family grow up in and work for boarding houses, inns and hotels. Focus is on two brothers, Myron and Ora, of the second generation. Poetic, ethereal Ora could not wait to escape hotel drudgery, though never too proud to ask plodding Myron for money.

George F. Babbitt, a businessman, enjoys brand names, the newest appliances, and the Republican Party. He actually values his role as a good citizen more than he values his wife. However, Babbitt grows to dislike the trappings of the middle class that he has fought so hard to achieve. He grows resolved to overcome his meaningless existence and look for a higher purpose after realising how meaningless his life is. Babbitt's search for meaning c...

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The most widely known of Sinclair Lewis's novels, Arrowsmith, is an incisive depiction of a man committed to science. Martin Arrowsmith, a bright, interested young man from a small Midwestern town, spends his leisure time in old Doc Vickerson's office, eagerly consuming medical texts. He is destined to be a surgeon and researcher, but he learns that societal forces of ignorance, greed, and corruption may be just as deadly as the epidemic. Lew...

Kingsblood Royal, an overlooked masterpiece by the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, is a moving and wickedly hilarious picture of a man who renounces the white race. An amazing portrait of two Americas-one black and one white-is created by the adventure that follows the stunning discovery that Neil Kingsblood, a normal middleclass banker with a good life, has AfricanAmerican blood. One simply needs to open today's newsp...