- City and town life, Fiction, Married women, Middle-aged men
In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America.
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Classical in form, prestige, cool and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Sinclair Lewis
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 777
- Publisher
- OK Publishing, Library of America, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781719006187
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About Sinclair Lewis · 1885–1951
American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
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