In 1930 Lewis would be the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. While many of Lewiss other novels are written in an optimistic tone, Main Street is a bit darker, satirizing small-town life of early twentieth- century.
First published in 1920, Main Street is Sinclair Lewis' first major novel, and was a phenomenal success at the time. She arrives with dreams of beautifying the town, of establishing art and culture, of improving lives and promoting child welfare, but whose spirit is gradually and inexorably crushed by small-town attitudes, ignorance and bigotry. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently. Read consecutively, Main Street and Babbitt make up an extraordinarily ambitious attempt to define America and the individual American at the start of the 1920s. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin. It remains one of the essential texts of the With Commentary by E. The town is, in our tale, called 'Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.' But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to reform her small town, brought Lewis immediate acclaim when it was published in 1920. Paul, when she meets a country doctor, Will Kennicott, who convinces her to marry him and move to the rural Minnesota town of Gopher Prairie. This is Americaa town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a. Download cover art Download CD case insert Main Street (Version 2)Ĭarol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920.
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