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 city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the small town. But her efforts to reform the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, conventionality,...

George E. Babbitt is a prosperous, unpleasant, real estate agent from Zenith, Ohio. His middle-class existence is shattered when his friend is convicted of murdering his wife. Babbitt tries to become a less materialistic person but to no avail.

The Trail of the Hawk, by Sinclair Lewis, is the chronicle of an inveterate Rolling Stone Carl Ericson, a born rebel against conventions, finds himself from boyhood up at war with the combined forces of family, school and society, all three of which unite in trying to mould him into the average colourless human being. Consequently throughout his earlier years he is in perpetual disgrace, at home, at school and at college Thus it happens that we find Carl in early adolescence a friendless and penniless wanderer, undaunted and thrilling with a sense of freedom and the boundless opportunity of...

Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968) wrote over 90 books in several genres. He was considered to be a leading social advocate. Because of his novel The Jungle, which dealt with conditions in the meat packing industry, The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed. In 1943 he won a Pulitzer Prize for Dragon's Teeth. Our Mr. Wrenn, published in 1914, was the second novel written by Lewis. Mr. Wrenn is a pacifist and a good man who dreams of traveling overseas. Wrenn watches movies to escape his boring job. A small inheritance helps him quit his job and travel for a few weeks. His...

"Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man" is a 1914 novel by Sinclair Lewis - the first to be published under his real name. Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer and playwright. In 1930 he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Mr. Wrenn" was an immediate success, with reviewers citing its whimsicality - 'a story of the ordinary, serving as an antidote to modern weariness'. It tells the tale of Mr. Wrenn, an employee of a novelty company, who quits his job after inheriting a fortune...

Sinclair Lewis (1885 -1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His first poems appeared in the Yale Courant magazine. His first book was Hike and the Aeroplane. Main Street is his most famous work. The Innocents was published in 1917. This tale begins, "Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other "Father" and "Mother." But frequently...

Main Street is a satirical novel that is important for different reasons - one of them is the portrayal of a strong female protagonist, inside what could be seen as a feminist theme by a male writer in the beginning of the 20th century.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

One of Sinclair Lewis's most well-known works and an enduring classic, Babbitt is well worth taking the time to pick up and read.