Sinclair Lewis

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....

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.....

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...

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....

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 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....

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....

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....

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....

The Pulitzer Prize novel describes the tradeoffs between medical research & money making & much more....

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"....

The book Elmer Gantry was the basis for the 1960 film "Elmer Gantry". The Elmer Gantry character (played magnificently by Burt Lancaster) has become a symbol of religious hypocrisy....

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

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

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 famous satire of life on Main Street, Gopher Prairie, mirrors with devastating honesty life on Main Streets from Albany to San Diego.....

Hvad ville der ske, hvis USA fik en diktator? DET KAN IKKE SKE HER fra 1935 er en forudseende og advarende roman, der påviser, at det kan ske. I 1936...

An older New York City couple, Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby, decides to leave the city for Cape Cod where they open a tea room. The tea room fails but that's just the beginning of their adventures. With no money and no prospects, they set out as hobos and roam the countryside....