M.LaFlaur
Main Street, first edition (1920)
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Sinclair Lewis’s sixth novel, with which he became famous. It sold 250,000 copies in the first half of 1921. The main character is Carol Kennicott, a liberal, college-educated young woman from Minneapolis–St. Paul who marries a small-town doctor. Upon moving to his home town of Gopher Prairie, she tries to reform and improve the unsophisticated village, and eventually settles for trying to fit in to the town’s narrow, self-satisfied society. Gopher Prairie, a fictional town in Minnesota, was modeled on Lewis’s hometown of Sauk Centre, Minn.
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Main Street, first edition (1920)
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Sinclair Lewis’s sixth novel, with which he became famous. It sold 250,000 copies in the first half of 1921. The main character is Carol Kennicott, a liberal, college-educated young woman from Minneapolis–St. Paul who marries a small-town doctor. Upon moving to his home town of Gopher Prairie, she tries to reform and improve the unsophisticated village, and eventually settles for trying to fit in to the town’s narrow, self-satisfied society. Gopher Prairie, a fictional town in Minnesota, was modeled on Lewis’s hometown of Sauk Centre, Minn.
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