Description
| Product ID: | 9781847498960 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Main Street |
| Subtitle: | Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes |
| Authors: | Author: Sinclair Lewis |
| Page Count: | 448 |
| Subjects: | Fiction and Related items, Fiction & related items, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An enormous commercial and critical success on its first publication in 1920, Main Street - regarded by many as Sinclair Lewis's best novel - delivers a scathing satire on the American dream, and is invaluable as a document of pre-Prohibition Middle America." Young college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the small town from which her new husband hails. Imbued with ideals of urban improvement, she dreams of redesigning her adopted village, but her efforts are thwarted by the narrow-mindedness, pettiness and conventionality of the locals, who conspire against her and deride all her endeavours.An enormous commercial and critical success on its first publication in 1920, Main Street – regarded by many as Sinclair Lewis’s best novel – delivers a scathing satire on the American dream, and is invaluable as a document of pre-Prohibition Middle America. |
| Imprint Name: | Alma Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Alma Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-02 |