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Title	:	Main Street
Author	:	Sinclair Lewis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 454 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2000 by Modern Library (first published 1920)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature. American. Novels. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classic Literature

Main Street Paperback | Pages: 454 pages

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With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Constance Rourke, and Mark Schorer.

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. It remains one of the essential texts of the American scene. Lewis Mumford observed: "In Main Street an American had at last written of our life with something of the intellectual rigor and critical detachment that had seemed so cruel and unjustified [in Charles Dickens and Matthew Arnold]. Young people had grown up in this environment, suffocated, stultified, helpless, but unable to find any reason for their spiritual discomfort. Mr. Lewis released them."

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota 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).

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Original Title:	Main Street
ISBN:	0375753141 (ISBN13: 9780375753145)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Carol Milford, Will Kennicott
Setting:	Minnesota,1910(United States)

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On page 25 I thought this guy is brilliant.On page 50 I thought this guy is exhaustively brilliant.On page 100 I thought Im exhausted.On page 150 I thought Ill never get out of this novel alive.On page 200 I thought so who knew there could be so much DETAIL about every last possible aspect of one teensy Minnesotan town lodged inside the Tardis-like head of Sinclair Lewis?On page 213 my eye fell upon this :Its the worst defeat of all. Im beaten. By Main Street. I must go on. But I cant!

Originally published on my blog here in November 2000.Main Street has been described as "one of the most merciless novels ever written". It is an apt description of this depiction of small town midwestern America in the early years of this century, but there is an important element in Lewis' writing which it does not convey.Lewis understands his subject through and through, and that makes what he has to say not just merciless but believable. He also doesn't just restrict his attack to provincial

I had just moved to a small town in Minnesota - with the same aspirations as this classic charater of many years before me, yet my thoughts and run ins were very much the same 50 years later. It was a reminder that one fits or one doesn't fit but to spend your life trying to change the engrained to your likely only means you will spend your life in turmoil, in hopes others after you, long after you will find the place more to your liking. Shortly afterwards - I moved.

So Dorothy is a kind of both romantic (as in someone who loves beautiful things) and idealist - the two things that disconnect you from the world. Her attempts to change her small town are thus often Quioxitic - seeing the futility of her efofrts to change her town exhausts her and she gives up. Very quickly. Again and again. But that is the case with most (but not all) such dreamers. I just wish it was a bit shorter work.

"Main Street": The title alone invokes placid images of the most tranquil pockets of middle America. And Sinclair Lewis could hardly have picked a name more suggestive of rustic simplicity and provinciality than Gopher Prairie for the Minnesota town that is the setting of his novel. Gopher Prairie is supposed to be a prototype of thousands of American small towns in the early decades of the twentieth century, paradise for those who like to cling comfortably to convention, unbearable for those

you're welcome! after this one you deserve a break!

I can't properly rate this book, because I did not enjoy it (or finish it yet), but I appreciate the satire and how its "commentary" on small minded people still holds true today. To me, Lewis didn't try to build deep, interesting characters, he built representations about everything that reeks in society. This is a book that says, "You think you can change the way people think? Well, follow me to Main Street, and we will see about that." He treated the protagonists and antagonists with the same