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  • Arrowsmith
    Sinclair Lewis
    Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). Lewis was greatly assisted in its preparation by science writer Paul de Kruif, who received 25% of the royalties on sales, although Lewis was listed as the sole author. Arrowsmith is an early major novel dealing with the culture of science. It...
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    22,13 €

  • The Job
    Sinclair Lewis
    The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920s and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania tow...
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    18,70 €

  • Babbitt
    Sinclair Lewis
    Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930.The word 'Babbitt' entered the English language as a 'person and especiall...
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    21,08 €

  • Free Air
    Sinclair Lewis
    Free Air is a 1919 novel written by Sinclair Lewis. A silent film adaptation of the novel was also released on April 30, 1922. The film starred Tom Douglas as Milt Daggett and Marjorie Seaman as Claire Boltwood. 'This cheerful little road novel, published in 1919, is about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to t...
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    18,74 €

  • It Can’t Happen Here
    Sinclair Lewis
    A conceited, grotesque, antiimmigrant, fear mongering demagogue runs for President of the United States and wins. Sinclair Lewis’s chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, ’Professional Common Man’. Taken in by the dreams of seeing America proud and prosperous once more, poor and angry voters are drawn to him. But once in power, he takes the country down a far da...
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    24,09 €

  • It Can’t Happen Here
    Sinclair Lewis
    A conceited, grotesque, antiimmigrant, fear mongering demagogue runs for President of the United States and wins. Sinclair Lewis’s chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, ’Professional Common Man’. Taken in by the dreams of seeing America proud and prosperous once more, poor and angry voters are drawn to him. But once in power, he takes the country down a far da...
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    37,38 €

  • The Job
    Sinclair Lewis
    This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. ...
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    16,60 €

  • Arrowsmith
    Sinclair Lewis
    Winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize, Arrowsmith by American author Sinclair Lewis is known to be one of the first novels on the culture of science, using both satire and tragedy to explore medical and scientific themes. In this novel, Lewis writes sharp social criticism, wicked humor, and the vain reality of drugs, public health, and immunology-and those who strive for fame and f...
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    27,90 €

  • Dodsworth
    Sinclair Lewis
    Samuel Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer, who builds his fortunes in fictional Zenith, Winnemac. In addition to his success in the business world, he had also succeeded as a young man in winning the hand of Frances ’Fran’ Voelker, a beautiful young socialite. While the novel provides the courtship as a backstory, the real story begins upon his retirem...
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    34,34 €

  • It Can’t Happen Here
    Sinclair Lewis
    It Can’t Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. The novel was published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, which was reported on by Dorothy Thompson, Lewis’ wife. The novel describes the rise of Berzelius Buzz Windrip, a demagogue who is elected President of the United States, after fomenting fear and promising drastic econo...
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    32,17 €

  • Main Street
    Sinclair Lewis
    The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the ...
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    37,52 €

  • Ann Vickers
    Sinclair Lewis
    Sinclair Lewis published his book Ann Vickers in 1933. The story follows Ann Vickers, the protagonist, from her school days as a tomboy in the American Midwest in the late nineteenth century, through college, and into her forties. It details her early 20th-century postgraduate suffragist period. She is incarcerated because she is a suffragist, and her experiences there inspire ...
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    37,54 €

  • Arrowsmith
    Sinclair Lewis
    Arrowsmith tells the story of bright and scientifically minded Martin Arrowsmith of Elk Mills, Winnemac, as he makes his way from a small town in the Midwest to the upper echelons of the scientific community at a prestigious foundation in New York City. Along the way he begins medical school. He becomes engaged to one woman, cheats on her with another woman, becomes engaged to ...
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    29,40 €

  • Our Mr. Wrenn
    Sinclair Lewis
    Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man is a 1914 novel by Sinclair Lewis and the first to be published under his real name. Mr. Wrenn, an employee of a novelty company, quits his job after inheriting a fortune from his father. He decides to go traveling. The book sold nine thousand copies.The book did not get major reviews but most of the reviews said it was a f...
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    17,50 €

  • The Innocents
    Sinclair Lewis
    Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 - January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded 'for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.' His wor...
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    16,40 €

  • Mantrap
    Sinclair Lewis
    Mantrap is Sinclair Lewis’s novel of an effete Eastern lawyer’s trip into the wilderness where he competes for the affection of the beautiful but bored city wife of a more competent backwoodsman. Scholars studying gender roles in the 1920’s have been interested in this book for what it says about the society’s conflicting values for men of brawn and brain. Humorously, some cri...
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    17,68 €

  • Main Street
    Sinclair Lewis
    Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920.Satirizing small town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis’s most famous book, and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, as she comes into conflict with the sm...
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    22,13 €

  • Main Street
    Sinclair Lewis
    The book 'Main Street', has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hen...
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    22,10 €

  • Babbit
    Sinclair 1885-1951 Lewis
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    25,58 €

  • The Trail Of The Hawk
    Sinclair. Lewis / SinclairLewis
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    24,64 €

  • Babbit
    Sinclair 1885-1951 Lewis
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    39,22 €

  • Free Air
    Sinclair Lewis
    Bored of the parties and luxuries that come with her socialite lifestyle, Claire Boltwood longs for something more authentic in her life. Desperate for adventure, Claire and her father decide to travel from New York City to the Pacific Northwest in their automobile, a new privilege enjoyed by the rich. Though he is a clever businessman, Claire’s father knows nothing about cars...
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    19,21 €

  • The Trail of the Hawk
    Sinclair Lewis
    Born into the first generation of an immigrant family from Norway, Carl Ericson was always bound to have differing philosophies than his parents. However, when these new, free-thinking ideas result in an expulsion from college, Carl must find a way to fit in with the society’s culture and values without stifling his independence. However, Carl has a difficult time achieving thi...
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    22,18 €

  • Main Street
    Sinclair Lewis
    Orphaned as a teen, Carol Milford grew up in a city in Minnesota. Already a compassionate person, Carol’s time studying in college and grad school exposed her to diverse, radical ideas and lifestyles, which she learned to either accept or tolerate. After college, Carol earns a position as a librarian in the state capital city, yet finds the work to be unsatisfying. This is why ...
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    25,17 €

  • Babbitt
    Sinclair Lewis
    George Babbitt is a forty-six-year-old real estate broker. His job allows him to enjoy many commodities of the middle-class, and offers he and his family a place in an elevated social circle. With three kids, a loving wife, a steady job, and a fair amount of disposable income, George is living the American dream. But despite his privilege, he is dissatisfied with his life, a to...
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    22,21 €

  • The Job
    Sinclair Lewis
    After a family member tragically falls ill, Una Golden was forced to move from Pennsylvania to New York in order to get a job to help support her family. Set in the early 1900s, going to the big city as a single woman was daunting and unconventional, but Una is dedicated to helping her family. After diligently job searching and excelling in additional training and education, Un...
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    19,97 €

  • The Job
    Sinclair Lewis
    After a family member tragically falls ill, Una Golden was forced to move from Pennsylvania to New York in order to get a job to help support her family. Set in the early 1900s, going to the big city as a single woman was daunting and unconventional, but Una is dedicated to helping her family. After diligently job searching and excelling in additional training and education, Un...
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    12,90 €

  • The Innocents
    Sinclair Lewis
    The Appleby’s are happy couple. Often referring to the other as 'father' or 'mother', the couple have remained as affectionate and passionate as newlyweds, and both are energetic despite their old age. Though they feel young and full of life, their adult daughter, with whom they share a difficult relationship with, and the rest of society, hardly agrees. It is suggested that th...
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    9,13 €

  • Babbitt
    Sinclair Lewis
    George Babbitt is a forty-six-year-old real estate broker. His job allows him to enjoy many commodities of the middle-class, and offers he and his family a place in an elevated social circle. With three kids, a loving wife, a steady job, and a fair amount of disposable income, George is living the American dream. But despite his privilege, he is dissatisfied with his life, a to...
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    14,27 €

  • Main Street
    Sinclair Lewis
    Orphaned as a teen, Carol Milford grew up in a city in Minnesota. Already a compassionate person, Carol’s time studying in college and grad school exposed her to diverse, radical ideas and lifestyles, which she learned to either accept or tolerate. After college, Carol earns a position as a librarian in the state capital city, yet finds the work to be unsatisfying. This is why ...
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    18,10 €


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