Sinclair Lewis

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

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....

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.....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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...

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

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....

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.

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....

"Doctor Arrowsmith" es considerada una de las obras maestras de la narrativa norteamericana del siglo XX. Como hijo y nieto de médicos...

First published in 1917, before Lewis achieved any significant fame, The Job is now seen as an early classic of a celebrated author, as well as a literary vanguard for its female lead character and its early declaration and examination of the rights of working women, issues still being grappled with a century later....

With every step upward that Arrowsmith takes in his career, his idealism is challenged by the greed, corruption, and commercialism of the scientific community, as well as by the temptations of women, money, power, and glory....

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"....

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....

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....

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....