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1. Cass Timberlane, a novel of husbands and wives, by Sinclair Lewis by Sinclair (1885-1951) Lewis | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1945)
Asin: B000NWKYVK Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
2. It canÂt happen here, a novel by Sinclair (1885-1951) Lewis | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1935)
Asin: B000XKH5C8 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
3. Babbit by Sinclair, 1885-1951 Lewis | |
Kindle Edition:
Pages
(2002-02-11)
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Hapless salesman in prepostmodern world
Attempted Return To Innocence
Timeless The plot is essentially about a middle manager in his 50s who has a midlife crisis and goes on a binge with bohemians.Sinclair takes his time in blowing up all the details of Babbit's alleged extra-marrital affair and its consequences. (I won't tell you if he really does--you have to read it). This novel comes alive through intelligent dialogue, an ever-moving story-line that stays in real-time (what Updike later drew on with his own brand of super-realism),with a deep and satisfying examination of the ever-shifting and garrelous Babbit, husband and father of two, who safeguards his modest material success in the fictional town of "Zenith." Multi-layered, with keen observations of American consumerism, with a hard look at marriage, spirituality, business, fatherhood and mid-life crisis. Written in 1922, the subject matter is universal and timeless. This book has laid the groundwork for many other novels that portray the American business man: Updike's "Rabbit" series, for one, (who he quotes from Babbit in the opening of "Rabbit Run"), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, the Organization Man and others. I'm glad I returned to this book, and recommend it to anyone frustrated by the often shallow and dehumanizing world of business.Keep a coffee at your side, though.
A really boring classic I found this book to be incredibly long and boring, but I think that was part of the point.At any rate, it's a classic, and in the words of a great literary critic, "These works are no longer on trial - the readers are." ... Read more |
4. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Sinclair, 1885-1951 Lewis | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2004-01-01)
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A good, dull friend, not a playmate, cures loneliness |
5. Biography - Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair (1885-1951): An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team | |
Digital: 21
Pages
(2004-01-01)
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6. Semblanzas literarias by Bernice D Matlowsky | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1951)
Asin: B0007FRWG8 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
7. Babbitt (Literary Classics (Amherst, N.Y.).) by Sinclair Lewis | |
Paperback: 408
Pages
(2002-11)
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Editorial Review Book Description On the surface, Babbitt appears to be the quintessential middle-class embodiment of conservative values and enthusiasm for the well-to-do lifestyle of the small entrepreneur. But beneath the complacent facade, he also experiences a rising, nameless discontent. These feelings eventually lead Babbitt into risky escapades that threaten his family and his standing in the community. Though published eighty years ago, this acerbic depiction of majority Americans, obsessed with success, material comfort, and mid-life doubt, still rings true. |
8. Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street by Richard Lingeman | |
Paperback: 704
Pages
(2005-06-15)
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A great find.
Justice
Interesting and enjoyable I found this book fascinating and insightful, and I was moved by Lingeman's final argument - that the time is ripe for a rediscovery of Lewis, that the "license to consider Lewis an irrelevant hack" that Schorer's book had conferred on the academic world is expired. I think it's criminal that Lewis is hardly even read in colleges today, while Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cather, Faulkner, Steinbeck, etc., are still read and discussed in detail. (Nothing against these great writers, all of whom I've read extensively, but Lewis was there first and made all their paths to brilliance easier.) As long as America is still loaded with familiar George Babbitts, Elmer Gantrys, Sam Dodsworths, Carol Kennicotts, etc., Lewis will be a classic (if not THE classic) American novelist. And Lingeman's biography presents a revealing picture of the unique, angry, ultimately lonely man behind these characters.
After Schorer I'd nominate Schorer's biography as a great one, qualifying my appraisal only by a parodying Hemingway on Gilbert Seldes: "It could only have been better if Sinclair Lewis had been better." The figure in the carpet, the consistent understanding that ties a book together, is vividly present on every page of Schorer. And unlike Lingeman, Schorer could talk with Lewis's two wives, plus Claude and Michael Lewis, Harry Maule, and Bennett Cerf; his account of Lewis's horrifying, seedy end in Italy is enlivened by portraits of the dermatologist Vincenzo Lapiccirella, the old servant whose refusal to discuss Lewis's alcoholism Schorer finds "engagingly reticent" (Schorer bristles with savage and delicious irony), and the enigmatic Alexander Manson. Beside Schorer, Lingeman is thin and pale, but if Lewis's fixing of quintessential American types and his sense of humor and sense of outrage appeal, you'll want to read his biography anyway, as I did.
Highly readable, very informative Neither heavily academic, nor breezy and light, this biography does exactly what it is supposed to do -- shines light upon a writer we remember, but never really knew. ... Read more |
9. Babbitt (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis | |
Paperback: 416
Pages
(2007-08-07)
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10. Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt (Barron's Book Notes) by Peter Fish, Sinclair Lewis | |
Paperback: 122
Pages
(1985-08)
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11. Sinclair Lewis' Babbit by Edward Winans | |
Paperback: 79
Pages
(1986-06)
list price: US$3.95 Isbn: 0671006835 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
12. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis | |
Paperback: 400
Pages
(2005-10-04)
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Be Militant for at least Once
Characteristic Lewis
5 stars isn't enough
Important Message, Botched Delivery
has it happened yet.... or will it soon? |
13. Sinclair Lewis (University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Number. 27) by Mark Schorer | |
Paperback: 47
Pages
(1963-06)
list price: US$1.25 Isbn: 0816602905 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
14. If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis | |
Hardcover: 408
Pages
(1997-11-03)
list price: US$39.00 Isbn: 0809321386 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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Thank you, Sinclair Lewis
Marvelous Stories Display a Little-Known Side of Lewis The introduction provides an interesting background in terms of both America's history and the events of Lewis's own life.
Excellent Collection of Short Stories Definately, you can detect partsof Babbit in many of the characters in the book. All of the stories wereworth reading.Some are amusing, some sad, and a few happy.All of them,however are thought provoking. Overall, a great book to get a hold of,especially if you are a Sinclair Lewis fan.
I hope we are entering a Sinclair renaisance...
Surprisingly timely. |
15. Main Street (Modern Library) by Sinclair Lewis | |
Paperback: 448
Pages
(1999-03-02)
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Retelling of George Eliot's Middlemarch
A Satirical Masterpiece and One Hec of a Read!
welcome to "main street"
A timeless quest
Down On "Main Street" |
16. Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) | |
Library Binding: 102
Pages
(1988-06)
list price: US$29.95 Isbn: 1555460461 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
17. Sinclair Lewis As Reader and Critic (Studies in American Literature) by Martin Bucco | |
Hardcover: 560
Pages
(2004-05)
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18. Elmer Gantry (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis | |
Paperback: 496
Pages
(2007-12-04)
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Excellent!
The Most Hated Novel in US History
A Timeless Classic... Can I get a hyprocritical AMEN!
Banned in Boston --
a profile of the USA, not the clergy |
19. Minnesota Diary, 1942-46 by Sinclair Lewis | |
Hardcover: 293
Pages
(2000-10)
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20. Ann Vickers (Bison Book) by Sinclair Lewis | |
Paperback: 564
Pages
(1994-04-01)
list price: US$15.00 Isbn: 0803279477 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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"I am mine own woman, well at ease."
When America writes books, she sounds like Sinclair Lewis
Missing pages, uneven story=lesser Lewis novel Lewis follows the titular character from her earliest years as a resident of Waubanakee, Illinois to her emergence as a major reformer on the East Coast. Right from the start, we get the idea that Ann is different from the other little boys and girls. The only child of a college professor, Ann's social position is one of high standing and moderate wealth. Nonetheless, she soon falls under the spell of a fiery socialist German immigrant named Klebs. By the time Ann goes to college, she's well on the way to becoming a true extremist. She drops out of the Y.W.C.A. after learning to reject Christianity with the help of a radical professor. Vickers forms a socialist organization on campus, embarks on a forbidden relationship with a faculty member, and earns a decidedly unsavory reputation amongst her fellow students. After graduating, she joins the suffrage movement, an activity that requires her to deliver oratories on street corners, go to jail for organizing protests, and hobnob with prominent personalities. Vickers, like most leftist radicals, never stays with a single cause for long. After several stints as assistant superintendents at homes that teach the urban poor and new immigrants life skills, she sets out to work as a prison reformer. The best part of the book details Ann's struggles in a southern prison, where she battles unsanitary conditions, lackadaisical treatment of prisoners, capital punishment, and corruption. Lewis is very careful to examine all aspects of his character's life. "Ann Vickers" constantly looks behind the rhetoric and politics in an effort to capture the emotional aspects of womanhood. Just because Ann is a radical doesn't mean she's cold to the idea of men. In fact, she has several relationships throughout her life, from a soldier during the First World War named Lafe Resnick to fellow radical Russell Spaulding to a corrupt New York judge named Barney Dolphin. Vickers's experiences with abortion, infidelity, and promiscuity fuel much of the narrative drive of the novel. Her experiences also cool her radical fire so that by the end of the book she's a determined liberal living out of wedlock with a disgraced member of the system. There's a great line at the end of the book where Lewis describes Ann as the "Captive Woman, the Free Woman, the Great Woman, the Feminist Woman, the Domestic Woman, the Passionate Woman, the Cosmopolitan Woman, the Village Woman-the Woman." In short, although he often disagrees with the hypocrisy of Ann and her methods, he does believe that conditions in America were changing enough that a female could now realize all aspects of her personality in both the private and public spheres. The problems of the book are many. First, I've always believed I should support my state university's publishing house, but this University of Nebraska Press edition is an embarrassment. From pages 371 to 394, half of the pages are blank. Yep, someone let a Sinclair Lewis novel go to bookstore shelves without correcting this completely unacceptable blunder. Even worse, the missing pages start up during the best part of the story, when Ann Vickers works in the southern prison. A primal scream is in order here, but I'm hoping this mistake is specific to one copy and not to the entire run. Second, and more in tune to the actual novel, the first 100 pages of the story aren't very interesting. Vickers's childhood and college days reek of boredom. Only when the character heads out into the larger world and starts mixing it up does the book start to soar. Third, I often thought Ann an unpleasant character, especially when her marital machinations emerge towards the end of the story. I think this last point, Ann's adultery, upsets me because I'm male. It's an unfair accusation for me to make, though, because men routinely leave their girlfriends and wives for other women in exactly the same way Vickers does. In any event, it's another example of what Lewis tries to say with the novel, that women now have the freedom to live their lives as they see fit. Ultimately, would I recommend "Ann Vickers"? I don't know. I think "Babbitt" light years ahead of this effort. I do believe "Ann Vickers" doesn't receive attention from today's leftist literati because Lewis viciously skewers the far left on nearly every page. Give it a shot if you're a Lewis fan or a moderate conservative who likes to see the leftist fringe occasionally take it on the chin.
Interesting and instantly absorbing book However, the primary focus of the bookis on the cruel and primitive jail conditions at the time.Ann's call inlife is to run a prison.Lewis unabashedly describes the gory details ofthe torture and living conditions that Ann finds through her firstexperiences. The characters in the story, especially that of Ann Vickers,are clearly drawn out.However, I found some of the "innocent"criminals to be a little too fake.At times I felt like Lewis was tryingto tell me that all people in jail didn't deserve to be there.However,Lewis does make some poignant observations about punishment and thepolitics involved with it. Overall, a great book and I would recommendthat all Lewis fans or those with a passing interest in feminism / women'ssuffrage or jail conditions in the early 1900's to read this book. ... Read more |
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