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....

As Babbitt grapples with the suffocating monotony of suburban life, societal expectations, and his own unfulfilled desires, Lewis paints a timeless portrait of conformity, materialism, and self-deception.

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....

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....

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....

Sinclair Lewis' last distinctive pulp novel, The Innocents, follows a longtime married couple as they vacation away from their home in New York City....

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

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...

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

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

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 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"....

George Babbitt has it all: a successful real estate job, a shiny car, a modern house equipped with all the latest technology, and a devoted wife and three children.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

En esta novela imprescindible de la narrativa estadounidense del siglo xx, Sinclair Lewis nos presenta a George F. Babbit, un agente inmobiliario bullicioso, arrogante y siempre preocupado por su reputación.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.

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

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....

An early 20th century American story written in the Theodore Dreiser style of each word and chapter building on the previous ones, telling the saga of evangelical religion & people with irony throughout....