Main Street

Author: Sinclair Lewis

Preface

Word Count: 235 | Released on: 18/11/2017

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thousand, in a region of wheat and

ion of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentu

s wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unpro

are turnover is the envy of the four counties which constitute God's Country. In the

f an alien cynic who should otherwise portray Main Street, or distress the c

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“The first of Sinclair Lewis's great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the small town. But her efforts to reform the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, conventionality, pitifully unambitious cultural endeavors, and—worst of all—the pettiness and bigotry of small-town minds.”