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The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Middle West. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to the ways of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. This groundbreaking novel attacks conformism, commercialism, moneygrubbing, and the decline in what Lewis saw as the American ideals of freedom and respect for individuality.
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Cool, classical in form, prestige and contemplative.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Sinclair Lewis
- First published
- 1634
- Pages
- 451
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, NetLibrary, Inc, Penguin Books Ltd
- Editions
- 274
- Language
- Chinese, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780451020055
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