| Main Street Contributor(s): Lewis, Sinclair (Author), Lewis, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0151555478 ISBN-13: 9780151555475 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin OUR PRICE: $32.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1989 Annotation: This famous novel of life on Main Street, Gopher Prairie, mirrors with devastating honesty life on Main Streets from Albany to San Diego. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89036779 |
| Lexile Measure: 1010 |
| Series: HBJ Modern Classic |
| Physical Information: 1.34" H x 5.57" W x 8.29" (1.74 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 5991 Reading Level: 8.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 30.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. The first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender roles, and small town life, Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lewis, Sinclair: - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), was born in Sauk Centre, Minne-sota, and graduated from Yale in 1907; in 1930 he became the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Main Street (1920) was his first critical and commercial success. Lewis's other noted books include Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935). |