Main Street; the story of Carol Kennicott is one of the Sinclair Lewis’ earliest and best novels and established him as a major American novelist. Main Street explores and satirizes small-town American life in the 1920s as Carol Kennicott tries to shoehorn her life’s aspirations into the narrow and hypocritical boundaries of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Published in 1920, Lewis went on to write 22 novels and three plays, and has the distinction of being America’s first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1930.
Book publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, New York
Book copyright: 1920
Book edition: First edition, first printing, characterized by the lack of battered type in the folio of page 54 and the letter y in may at the bottom of page 387
Pages: 451 (468 bound pages)
Size: 5″ x 7-5/8″
Dust jacket: No
Illustrations: None
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