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Main Street & Babbitt

A young woman has difficulty adjusting to life in a small town.

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  • "Main street"@pl
  • "Main street"
  • "Main Street"
  • "Main Street and Babbit"@en
  • "Main Street and Babbitt"
  • "Main street ; and, Babbitt"
  • "Main street and Babbitt"

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  • "A young woman has difficulty adjusting to life in a small town."@en
  • "A young woman has difficulty adjusting to life in a small town."
  • "Features 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."
  • "Features 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."@en
  • "A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town which exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there."@en
  • "A college-bred girl marries a small town doctor and tries to uplift the natives of the small town."@en
  • "More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA."@en
  • "Describes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact that she lives in a small, self-satisfied, midwestern town."
  • "Bares the lives of the residents of Gopher Prairie and in so doing, mirrors with relentless honesty the lives on Main Streets throughout the U.S.A."@en
  • "Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. The story is set in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis' hometown.-- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia."@en
  • "The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Middle West. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to the ways of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. This groundbreaking novel attacks conformism, commercialism, moneygrubbing, and the decline in what Lewis saw as the American ideals of freedom and respect for individuality."
  • "Young, beautiful Carol Milford marries Dr. Will Kennicott and moves with him to the small midwestern town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Her ideas about civic improvement and beautification are met with complacency and bigotry, however, and her husband cannot understand why she will not be content with simply keeping house for him."@en
  • "Jeden ze stěžejních románů pozdějšího nositele Nobelovy ceny je společenskou studií o americkém maloměšťáctví, označovanou za paní Bovaryovou americké literatury. Mladá vysokoškolačka, která je plná ideálů, se provdá za průměrnéholékaře a následuje ho do zapadlého městečka, kde se snaží intelektuálně pozvednout místní společnost, přičemž její snaha ztroskotává na pokrytecké morálce a omezenosti a nakonec končí hořkým kompromisem."
  • "Carol Milford struggles to find a way to use her education, sophistication, and energy after she becomes the wife of a small town physician and finds that she is expected to be nothing more than the gracious Mrs. Kennicott. Torn between the challenge of social change and the comfort of personal security, she begins to understand the cost of conformity and rebellion."@en
  • "A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there."
  • "A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there."@en
  • "Gopher Prairie, Minnesota - a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. So Sinclair Lewis - recipient of the Nobel Prize and rejecter of the Pulitzer - prefaces his novel Main Street. Lewis is brutal in his depictions of the self-satisfied inhabitants of small-town America, a place that proves to be merely an assemblage of pretty surfaces, strung together and ultimately empty."
  • "In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. These remarkable novels combine brilliant satire with a lingering affection for the men and women who, as Lewis wrote of Babbitt, want "to seize something more than motor cars and a house before it's too late.""
  • "Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis, is part of the <A href=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/classics/index.asp?z=y&cds2Pid=16447&sLinkPrefix>Barnes & Noble Classics</A> series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:<UL type=disc><LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Biographies of the authors <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Footnotes and endnotes <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Comments by other famous authors <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Bibliographies for further reading <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. “This is America—a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. So Sinclair Lewis—recipient of the Nobel Prize and rejecter of the Pulitzer—prefaces his novel Main Street. Lewis is brutal in his depictions of the self-satisfied inhabitants of small-town America, a place which proves to be merely an assemblage of pretty surfaces, strung together and ultimately empty.Brooke Allen holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University. She is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Hudson Review, and The New Leader. A collection of her essays, Twentieth Century Attitudes, will be published in 2003."
  • "Describes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact that she lives in a small, self-satisfied, Midwestern town."@en
  • "Describes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact that she lives in a small, self-satisfied, Midwestern town."
  • "An authorized reprint of the hardcover ed. Harcourt Brace & World."@en
  • "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, pitifully unambitious cultural endeavors, and--worst of all--the pettiness and bigotry of small-town minds. Lewis's portrayal of a marriage torn by disillusionment and a woman forced into compromises is at once devastating social satire and persuasive realism. His subtle characterizations and intimate details of small-town America make Main Street a complex and compelling work."@en
  • "Descibes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact htat she lives in a small, self-satisfied, midwestern town."@en
  • "Newly married to local doctor Will Kennicott, free-sprited Carol Milford sets out to reform and improve her new hometown of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, beautify its streets and educate its citizens. Main Street was a major bestseller, reflecting the public's interest in wholesome small-town life. At the same time, however, Sinclair Lewis derided small-town attitudes throughout the book with his trademark satiric humour."
  • "A landmark in twentieth-century American literature, one of the most influential and widely read books of our time, this famous novel of life on Main Street, Gopher Prairie, mirrors with devastating honesty life on Main Streets from Albany to San Diego. Here, in a declared war on complacency and pettiness, Lewis lays bare the hypocrisy and self-seeking too often hidden behind the quiet facade of Main Street lives. First published in 1920, Main Street has an uncanny resonance seventy years later."@en
  • "Literature Online includes the KnowledgeNotes student guides, a unique collection of critical introductions to major literary works. These high-quality, peer-reviewed academic resources are tailored to the needs of literature students and serve as a complement to the guidance provided by lecturers and seminar teachers."
  • "Literature Online includes the KnowledgeNotes student guides, a unique collection of critical introductions to major literary works. These high-quality, peer-reviewed academic resources are tailored to the needs of literature students and serve as a complement to the guidance provided by lecturers and seminar teachers."@en
  • "This revealing novel ruthlessly bares the lives of the residents of Gopher Prairie and in so doing, mirrors with relentless honesty the lives on Main Streets throughout the U.S.A."@en
  • "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."
  • "A college-bred girl marries a small town doctor and tries to improve the inhabitants of the small town."
  • "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
  • "This novel centers on an idealistic young woman who marries a country doctor and settles in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness, Carol Kennicott reflects a whole country hesitating between a new sophistication and its traditional insularity."
  • "Carol Milford, educated, sophisticated, and energetic, has ambitious plans for her life. Her studies have prepared her to join an enlightened, progressive society. But after she becomes Carol Kennicott, the wife of a small town physician, she quickly learns that she is to be nothing more than a gracious wife. Frustrated and torn between the challenge of social change and the comfort of personal security, she begins to understand the cost of conformity;and rebellion. Sinclair Lewis' perceptive tale has been a milestone in American literature since it was published in 1920. Conveying all the hope and optimism of a generation who sought to use their education and prosperity to make a more perfect country, his heroine still stands for the youthful exuberance of our nation."@en
  • "A novel about life in the Midwest tells of Carol Kennicott's struggles to find an identity and vocation in the midst of the stultifying conformity of a small Minnesota town."@en
  • "První z úspěšných románů amerického spisovatele, vyznamenaného Nobelovou cenou, líčí zatuchlé prostředí amerického maloměsta, jeho pokryteckou morálku a omezenost, proti níž marně bojuje hrdinka příběhu, mladá idealistka, dychtící po kráse a činorodém životě."
  • "Accelerated reader ;"
  • "Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Constance Rourke, and Mark Schorer "Main Street is the climax of civilization," Sinclair Lewis declared with a typical blend of seriousness and irony. "That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters." Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to reform her small town, brought Lewis immediate acclaim when it was published in 1920. It remains one of the essential texts of the American scene. Lewis Mumford observed: "In Main Street an American had at last written of our life with something of the intellectual rigor and critical detachment that had seemed so cruel and unjustified [in Charles Dickens and Matthew Arnold]. Young people had grown up in this environment, suffocated, stultified, helpless, but unable to find any reason for their spiritual discomfort. Mr. Lewis released them." Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), was born in Sauk Centre, Minne-sota, and graduated from Yale in 1907; in 1930 he became the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Main Street (1920) was his first critical and commercial success. Lewis's other noted books include Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935)."@en
  • "A young woman has difficulty adjusting to life in a small town in Minnesota."@en
  • ""Carol Milford tries to reform her new hometown. A satire of small towns" --Provided by publisher."@en

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  • "Study guides"@en
  • "American fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "Downloadable World Book ebooks"@en
  • "Pastoral fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Satire"
  • "Satire"@en
  • "Nowele amerykańskie"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Powieść amerykańska"

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  • "Storgatan : Carol Kennicotts historia"
  • "Storgatan : Carol Kennicotts historia"@sv
  • "Main Street & Babbitt"
  • "Main Street & Babbitt"@en
  • "Honchō-dōri"
  • "Calle Mayor"@es
  • "Calle Mayor"
  • "Calle Mayor"@en
  • "Die Hauptstraße : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte"
  • "Main Street. : En roman"
  • "大街"
  • "Grand-rue (Main street)"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse Carola Kennicotts Geschichte : Roman"
  • "Main Street ; [novels]"
  • "Valtakatu (Main Street) Carol Kennicottin Tarina"
  • "Hlavná ulica"
  • "MAIN STREET"
  • "Kentrikos Dromos"
  • "De hoofdstraat : de geschiedenis van Carol Kennicott"
  • "Main Street : en Roman"@da
  • "Main Street and ; Babbitt"
  • "Main Street ; & Babbitt"
  • "Main street. The story of Carol Kennicot"
  • "Main street : roman"
  • "Grand'-Rue (Main Street). Traduit par Suzanne Flour"
  • "Main street ; and Babbitt"
  • "...Main street"
  • "大街 = Main street : [全译本]"
  • "Main Street, roman"@en
  • "Da jie"
  • "Main Street: the story of Carol Kennicot. Original illustrations by Steve Henderson"@en
  • "Calle mayor : historia de Carol Kennicott"
  • "Storgatan, Carol Kennicotts historia"
  • "Main Street : [and] ; Babbitt"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse : Roman"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte: Roman"
  • "al-Shari al-ra'isi"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse; Carola Kennicotts geschichte"
  • "Grand-Rue"
  • "Fö Utca"
  • "Calle mayor : Historia de Carol Kennicott"@es
  • "Calle mayor : Historia de Carol Kennicott"
  • "本町通り"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse; Carola Kennicotts Geschichte; Roman"
  • "Main Street <japan.&gt"
  • "Glavna ulica : roman Karole Kenikat"
  • "Main Street [and] Babbitt"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte : Roman"
  • "Main street"
  • "Main street"@en
  • "Glavna ulica"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse Roman"
  • "De hoofdstraat"
  • "Calle Mayor : historia de Carol Kennicott"@es
  • "Die Hauptstraße"
  • "Main Street : the story of Carol Kennicott"
  • "A Fő-utca : [regény]"@hu
  • "Die Hauptstraße Carola Kennicotts Geschichte"
  • "Da jie = Main street : [quan yi ben]"
  • "Honchō doori"@ja
  • "Hlavní ulice : román ze středozápadu Amerického"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse"
  • "A Fő-utca"
  • "Main Street ; Babbitt"
  • "Main Street ; Babbitt"@en
  • "Glavnai︠a︡ ulit︠s︡a : roman"
  • "Honchō dōri"
  • "Honchō dōri"@ja
  • "Hlvani̕ tři̕da"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte; Roman"
  • "Main street : en roman"
  • "Grad-Rue"
  • "Grand-rue"
  • "Main Street & Babbit"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse; Carola Kennicotts Geschichte. Roman"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte ; Roman"
  • "Rua Principal"
  • "Da jie = Main street"
  • "Ulica Główna"@pl
  • "Ulica Główna"
  • "Main Street and Babbitt"
  • "Die Hauptstraße : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte ; Roman"
  • "Main street & Babbitt"
  • "Main street. Roman"
  • "Main Street : roman"
  • "Main street : [novel]"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse Carola Kennicotts Geschichte ; Roman"
  • "Grand'-Rue= (Main Street)"
  • "大街 = Main street"
  • "Die Hauptstraße Carola Kennicotts Geschichte ; Roman"
  • "Fő utca"
  • "Calle mayor historia de Carol Kennicott"@es
  • "Kentrikos dromos"
  • "Hlavní třída"
  • "Main street the story of Carol Jennicott"
  • "Calle Mayor; historia de Carol Kennicott. Traduccion del, ingles por Carlos De Onio"@en
  • "Die Hauptstrasse : roman"
  • "Glavna ulica : Roman Karole Kenikat. (Prevela sa engleskog Milana Slavenski)"
  • "Storgatan : Carol Kennicotts historia = Main Street"
  • "Main street ; &, Babbitt"
  • "Main Street"
  • "Main Street"@en
  • "Main Street"@da
  • "Main Street, etc"@en
  • "Ulica główna"
  • "[Main street] die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte : Roman"
  • "Mainstreet"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte. Roman"
  • "Die Hauptstrasse Carola Kennicotts Geschichte"
  • "Calle mayor"@es
  • "Calle mayor"

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