Sinclair Lewis

Widely hailed as a milestone in American literature, Sinclair Lewis' Main Street vividly describes...

This is the story of a brilliant young man who dedicates his life to science, yet finds that corruption, not disease, is his greatest foe.....

Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip....

On the surface, everything is all right with Babbitt’s world of the solid, successful businessman. But in reality, George F. Babbitt is a lonely, middle-aged man....

In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.

A greedy, philandering Baptist minister, Elmer Gantry turns to evangelism and becomes the leader of a large Methodist congregation. Often exposed as a fraud, he is never fully discredited....

The lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness, reflects the position in which America's turn-of-the-century "emancipated woman"....

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is a satirical novel that depicts the rise of a fascist government in the United States, exploring themes of...

In this sardonic portrait of the middle class during the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis perfectly captures the sound, the feel, and the attitudes of the generation that created the cult of consumerism....

A blistering rebuke of religious hypocrisy, Elmer Gantry is the story of a charismatic and manipulative social climber who rises to power within his church, despite his insincerity....

This epic of the booming 20's captures the relentless culture of American business. A classic novel about conformity in small town America....

Published on October 23, 1920, Main Street was the first of Sinclair Lewis's great successes. This 100th Anniversary Edition includes a new Foreword by biographer Richard Lingeman and a new Afterword to the Audiobook by Dr. Sally Parry....

Millionaire Sam Dodsworth takes his wife, Fran, on a European vacation. But before long, the pretensions of the cosmopolitan scene prove more enticing to Fran than her husband....

With his breathtaking social insight and his graceful sentences, Sinclair Lewis—a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner—stands out as one of the most important American writers of the 20th century....

Claire Boltwood and her father drive their Gomez-Dep roadster from Minnesota to Seattle....

The Job is one of Sinclair Lewis' earliest novels. Concerning the exploits of a 1920s career woman, it is one of the first novels about feminism....

Babbitt is largely a satire of American culture, society, and behaviour, with its main theme focusing on the power of conformity, and the vacuity of middle-class American life....

First published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America....

In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. When two people meet, when eyes glance and lock. And we often say something ‘clicks’; ‘it feels like I’ve known you forever’. Romance begins to brew and to blossom.

We travel with The Hawk, or Carl Ericson, son of Norwegian immigrants, born at the end of the 19th century, through the first three adventurous periods of the young man's life. We see him as an adventurous boy, running away with Gertie Cowels, the girl that lives in the big house....