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Fiction · 1920 · English

Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis

About this book

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis explores satire, city and town life — fiction, domestic fiction.

From the opening pages: “Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to…”

Author
Sinclair Lewis
First published
1920
Category
Fiction
Language
English

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