Main Street

Unique Elements Historical Context Detailed Early 20th Century Historical Outline “I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. .” ― Main Street Main Street is a 20th Century historical classic novel by Sinclair Lewis, and it was first published in 1920 in the United States. This is the Nobel Prize winning Sinclair Lewis’s book which is unabridged original 1920 special edition of Main Street with historical annotation and an unmissable American modern literary classic, that could have just as easily been written today. Main Street is a compelling American literature classic and historical fiction book for men and women about relationships, set in a fictitious mid-western state in America, and is full of satire about relationships, marriage, families, social class, work, and conformity. When released in 1920 Main Street was very controversial and this made it influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize winner in Literature to Lewis in 1930 for his books. Main Street is a classic satire book for adults and psychological fiction about American culture and society, Sinclair Lewis explores his love and hate of small midwestern American towns as a fiction novel for men and women. About The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown and takes place shortly before and after the First World War. Main Street’s satire of narrow-minded provincialism broke the American myth of a happy small-town life. It was an attack on the conformity and boredom that Sinclair Lewis saw in the Midwest. After getting married to the town's doctor, young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie. There, she tries to bring culture to the small town. But her attempts to change the prairie village are met with a wall of gossip, greed, convention, pitifully unambitious cultural projects, and, worst of all, the pettiness as well as bigotry of small-town minds. Lewis's description of a marriage torn apart by disappointment and a woman forced to make compromises is both a devastating social satire and a convincing piece of realism. His nuanced characters and personal details about small-town America make Main Street a reflection of that time. “She was a woman with a working brain and no work.” Main Street is an American satirical fiction classic that belongs on every bookshelf. Main Street by American author Sinclair Lewis is a book that was made into movie in 1923 and adapted for stage productions, a Broadway play was produced in 1921. Other Books that may be of interest to you and Professionally Edited by Bygone Media and available on Amazon include Babbitt and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Collect them all, you can start with this one today by adding one or two to your cart now! Main Street, the American literary fiction classic set in the United States is filled with historical fiction, modernism, and satire and would make a great addition to your classic fiction collection or a great gift to any American special edition books buff collection. “Not individuals but institutions are the enemies... They insinuate their tyranny under a hundred guises and pompous names, such as Polite Society, the Family, the Church, Sound Business, the Party, the Country, the Superior White Race” ― Main Street Scroll up and click the “Add to cart” button. Title Details Original 1920 Unabridged Text Book type: Classic Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Modernism Historical Context Special Edition Book