Ver a tamaño completo.
Main Street
de Lewis, Sinclair
- Usado
- Estado
- Book is in Good condition, with discoloring of the outer covers and spine and browning of the pages. There is a date written on/There is no Dust Jacket available. However, there is a Dust Jacket flap that comes with the Book on the inside front cover.
- Librería
-
Shawnee, Kansas, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Main Street is a story about life in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, around 1920. The primary characters are Carol Milford, an educated woman and her husband, Doctor Will Kennicott, who move to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, and what happens with small-town living and town gossip. This Book has 451 pages and is a reprint of the original Novel by Sinclair Lewis and is listed as the thirty-first printing from 1922.
Sinopsis
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a satirical novel concerning small town America. The story follows Carol Milford, a liberal and free-spirited woman, as she marries Dr. William Kennicott and settles in his hometown of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Upon arrival, Carol is shocked by the conservatism and general backwardness of Gopher Prairie—which is loosely based on Lewis’ hometown of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The residents of Gopher Prairie seem more interested in gossip than larger cultural or social issues, which frustrates Carol. In various attempts to reform the town, she implements one improvement project after another, all of them ending in failure. In the end, Carol realizes that her frustrations with the individuals of the town should really have been directed towards its institutions and that although she was been beaten, she has kept the faith. Lewis initially seems to be attacking his small town roots in the novel, but his satire is double-edged; Main Street is not only a critique of simple townspeople, but also of the superficial intellectuals who look down on them. Main Street was not expected to be a commercial success. Lewis anticipated selling 10,000 copies; Harcourt, Brace and Howe anticipated 20,000. In the first six months of 1921, Main Street sold over 180,000 copies. Main Street is ranked 68th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was initially awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature that year, but the Board of Trustees overturned the decision and gave the prize to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence instead. (In 1925, Lewis rejected the Pulitzer Prize for Arrowsmith because he felt that he had deserved the prize for Main Street.)
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- Silver Wave Auctions and Sales
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 20-0066
- Título
- Main Street
- Autor
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Binding is in Good condition.
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Book is in Good condition, with discoloring of the outer covers and spine and browning of the pages. There is a date written on
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- There is no Dust Jacket available. However, there is a Dust Jacket flap that comes with the Book on the inside front cover.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Thirty-first Printing
- Editorial
- Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1922
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Novel, Life in Small Town America, Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, 1920.
- Size
- 7.6" x 5.25" x 1.3"
Términos de venta
Silver Wave Auctions and Sales
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
Sobre el vendedor
Silver Wave Auctions and Sales
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
Shawnee, Kansas
Sobre Silver Wave Auctions and Sales
My business includes selling books of all subjects and price ranges including First Edition, Non-Fiction, Biographies and Auto-Biographies, with an emphasis on military history, U.S. history, presidents, political science and former and current world leaders. Other interests include aviation, aerospace and science.I also will include magazines of many different titles and subjects in my store.
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
