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Main Street : the Story of Carol Kennicott

Main street is the climax of civilization. Such is our comfortable tradition and sure faith.

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  • "The story of a college graduate from St. Paul who leaves to marry a doctor in a small, middle-class town, only to find her efforts to bring culture and beauty to the town thwarted by its residents, testing her idealism."
  • "Main street is the climax of civilization. Such is our comfortable tradition and sure faith."@en
  • "A young woman has difficulty adjusting to life in a small town."
  • "The wife of a town doctor dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community."
  • "The wife of a town doctor dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community."@en
  • "In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. The first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender roles, and small town life, Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist."@en
  • "A college girl attempts to reform a shanty town."@en
  • "Carol Milford is an exuberant, liberal-hearted woman who marries a man from a small town. After they marry they settle in his home-town, Gopher Prairie, which Carol finds narrow and ugly. She throws herself into reforming the town, but is met only with derision by her own class. She decides to leave, but finds that the world outside is just as flawed as Gopher Prairie. She remains uncowed, however, declaring "I do not admit that dish-washing is enough to satisfy all women!""@en
  • "Doctor's aspiring wife schemes to civilize and beautify a small barbaric Minnesota town."@en

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  • "Domestic fiction"
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  • "Main Street, the story of Carol Kennicott, by Sinclair Lewis"
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