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...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged by authors' last names: Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] Beauty And The Beast [Barbot de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne] The Law [Frédéric Bastiat] Cabin Fever [B. M. Bower] Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] Discourse on the Method [Descartes] Sister Carrie [Theodore Dreiser] The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas] A Simple Soul [Flaubert] The Good Soldier [Ford Madox Ford] North and South [Elizabeth C...

SCIENCE FICTION Ultimate Box Set gathers more than 170 foundational tales of speculation, catastrophe, discovery, and social transformation. Its immense range moves from lunar voyages, subterranean realms, and lost civilizations to mechanized futures, plague-stricken societies, totalitarian states, and post-apocalyptic survival. Romance, Gothic terror, satire, adventure narrative, philosophical fable, scientific extrapolation, and utopian and dystopian fiction coexist here, revealing scien...

Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here is a bracing political dystopia that imagines the United States surrendering, almost willingly, to native authoritarianism. Through the rise of demagogue Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip and the resistance of small-town editor Doremus Jessup, Lewis fuses satire, reportage, and moral fable. Published in 1935, amid fascism's ascent in Europe and anxieties over Depression-era populism, the novel belongs to the literature of democratic warning: direct, polemical, ...

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

AFTER THE END gathers foundational dystopian and post-apocalyptic fictions into a capacious inquiry into social engineering, technological mastery, environmental ruin, authoritarian power, and the precarious endurance of human freedom. Its range extends from satirical voyages and Gothic catastrophes to speculative romances, political parables, scientific fantasies, and bleak future histories. Visions of regimented cities, altered bodies, devastated landscapes, and ideologically managed pop...

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.

In Sinclair Lewis's groundbreaking novel, 'It Can't Happen Here,' the reader is transported to a fictional America where a demagogue rises to power and installs a totalitarian regime. Through his compelling narrative style and sharp satirical wit, Lewis not only delivers a gripping story but also offers a stark warning about the dangers of political complacency and the fragility of democracy. Set in the backdrop of the Great Depression, the book sheds light on the socio-political climate o...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Sinclair Lewis Boxed Set" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Babbitt Free Air Main Street The Trail of the Hawk The Innocents The Job Our Mr. Wrenn Things Moths in the Arc Light The Willow Walk Nature, Inc. The Cat of the Stars The Ghost Patrol The Kidnaped Memorial Speed Young Man Axelbrod

Sinclair Lewis's novel, 'Elmer Gantry' (Unabridged), delves into the world of early 20th-century evangelicalism, exploring the charismatic yet hypocritical character of Elmer Gantry as he rises through the ranks of a religious organization. The book is a scathing critique of religious hypocrisy and the manipulation of believers for personal gain. Through its vivid and satirical prose, Lewis shines a light on the darker aspects of organized religion and its leaders, making a powerful statem...

It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. Published during the rise of fascism in Europe, the novel describes the rise of Buzz Windrip, a populist United States senator who is elected to the presidency after promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and traditional values. After his election, Windrip takes complete control over the government and imposes totalitarian rule with the help...