The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

"Arrowsmith" is Sinclair Lewis' 1925 satire of the scientific community and how it can be corrupted by money, ego, and social expectations. It earned Lewis the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for literature (an honor he declined).The novel follows Martin Arrowsmith, an idealistic medical student who dreams of becoming a pure research scientist. After graduating, Martin's dedication to scientific integrity is tested when he travels to a plague-stricken Caribbean island with an experimental seru...

Sinclair Lewis - Ultimate Collection gathers the major fiction through which Lewis anatomized modern American life: the provincial complacencies of Main Street, the commercial pieties of Babbitt, the scientific ambitions of Arrowsmith, the religious showmanship of Elmer Gantry, and the authoritarian nightmare of It Can't Happen Here. Written in a sharp, observant, and often satirical realist style, these works stand at the center of early twentieth-century American literary naturalism and ...

Lewis has been both criticized and congratulated for his unorthodox writing style in Babbitt. One reviewer said "There is no plot whatever... Babbitt simply grows two years older as the tale unfolds." Lewis presents a chronological series of scenes in the life of his title character. After introducing George F. Babbitt as a middle-aged man, "nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay," Lewis presents a meticulously detailed description of Babbitt's mor...

Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith is a searching novel of scientific vocation, following Martin Arrowsmith from medical school through private practice, public health work, and bacteriological research. Written in Lewis's lucid realist style, sharpened by satire and documentary detail, it examines the conflict between pure inquiry and institutional ambition. In the context of early twentieth-century American realism and Progressivist faith in science, the novel is both a Bildungsroman and a crit...

Kingsblood Royal (1947) is Sinclair Lewis's bold postwar novel about Neil Kingsblood, a respectable Minnesota bank clerk and veteran whose genealogical curiosity reveals an African American ancestor. When Neil refuses to treat this discovery as shameful, the liberal veneer of his town collapses into ostracism, economic punishment, and violence. Written in Lewis's plainspoken, satiric realism, the book extends the social anatomies of Main Street and Babbitt into the terrain of American race...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions [Edwin Abbott Abbott] Lady Susan [Jane Austen] R. Holmes & Co. [John Kendrick Bangs] Mrs. Raffles [John Kendrick Bangs] The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr] Love Insurance [Earl Derr Biggers] The Mirror of Kong Ho [Ernest Bramah Smith] The Ghost-Extinguisher [Frank Gelett Burgess] Erewhon, or Over The Range [Samuel Butler] Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice [James Br...

One of the first road trip novels, Free Air is the story of Claire Boltwood, a young heiress who, in the early days of the automobile, takes a road trip from New York to the Pacific coast. Liberating in all senses, Claire’s road trip frees her from the strict confines of aristocratic life, as she finds love and settles into a new life far removed from her entitled upbringing.A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sinclair Lewis wrote stories heavily influenced by Amer...

It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who resembles Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders.

'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New YorkerA vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud an...

Main Street was written by Sinclair Lewis and first published in 1920. In this classic Sinclair Lewis shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire. Main Street attacks the conformity and dullness of early 20th Century mid western village life in the story of Carol Milford, the city girl who marries the town doctor. Her efforts to bring culture to the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, and petty small-minded bigotry.

It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who resembles Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders.