Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Vintage Main Street By Sinclair Lewis 16th printing == Free Postage USA at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Main Street, Babbitt ++ $ + $ shipping + $ shipping + Seller Rating: % positive. 41 rows · First published in , Main Street is Sinclair Lewis' first major novel, and was a . · The word "Babbitt" entered the English language as a "person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards". Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in Brand: e-artnow.
― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street. 63 likes. Like "It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class." ― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here. tags: budgeting, priorities. 63 likes. Like "The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy. Main Street (Version 2) Sinclair Lewis ( - ). Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets a country doctor, Will Kennicott, who convinces her to marry him and move to the rural Minnesota town of Gopher Prairie. by Sinclair Lewis. In this masterful satire of early 20th century American life, Sinclair Lewis introduces George F. Babbitt, a prosperous partner at a real-estate firm in the fictitious town of Zenith. In the novel, Babbitt becomes unhappy with the ritualized and highly conformist life that he is leading and attempts to make it more gratifying.
Main Street and Babbitt are views from opposite of the same theme. They are about the reactions of the protagonists to the strictures of their society; how they fought against societal constraints and, in the end, how they overcame them. The choice of Library of America to bind these two novels together is an inspired one. They are linked in theme. In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. Published two years after Lewis's previous novel (Main Street, ), the story of George F. Babbitt was much anticipated because each novel presented a portrait of American society wherein “the principal character is brought into conflict with the accepted order of things, sufficiently to illustrate its ruthlessness.”.
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