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Main street
Storgatan : Carol Kennicotts historia
Main Street & Babbitt
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.
A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town which exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there.
A college-bred girl marries a small town doctor and tries to uplift the natives of the small town.
Calle Mayor
Die Hauptstraße : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte
Die Hauptstrasse Carola Kennicotts Geschichte : Roman
Valtakatu (Main Street) Carol Kennicottin Tarina
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
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.
De hoofdstraat : de geschiedenis van Carol Kennicott
Main Street : en Roman
Domestic fiction
Main street. The story of Carol Kennicot
Grand'-Rue (Main Street). Traduit par Suzanne Flour
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.
History
Main Street: the story of Carol Kennicot. Original illustrations by Steve Henderson
Main Street, roman
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.
Calle mayor : historia de Carol Kennicott
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.
Die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte: Roman
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.
Die Hauptstrasse; Carola Kennicotts geschichte
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.
A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there.
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Die Hauptstrasse; Carola Kennicotts Geschichte; Roman
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."
Die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte : Roman
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics 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: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading 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.
Main Street : the story of Carol Kennicott
Die Hauptstraße Carola Kennicotts Geschichte
A Fő-utca : [regény]
Honchō doori
Hlavní ulice : román ze středozápadu Amerického
Pastoral fiction
An authorized reprint of the hardcover ed. Harcourt Brace & World.
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.
Psychological fiction
Main Street ; Babbitt
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.
Honchō dōri
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.
Die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte; Roman
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.
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Main Street and Babbit
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Satire
Die Hauptstrasse; Carola Kennicotts Geschichte. Roman
A college-bred girl marries a small town doctor and tries to improve the inhabitants of the small town.
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.
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.
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.
Die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte ; Roman
Ulica Główna
Die Hauptstrasse Carola Kennicotts Geschichte ; Roman
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.
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.
Calle mayor historia de Carol Kennicott
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.
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).
Main street the story of Carol Jennicott
Calle Mayor; historia de Carol Kennicott. Traduccion del, ingles por Carlos De Onio
Glavna ulica : Roman Karole Kenikat. (Prevela sa engleskog Milana Slavenski)
Storgatan : Carol Kennicotts historia = Main Street
Main Street
A young woman has difficulty adjusting to life in a small town in Minnesota.
Main Street, etc
[Main street] die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte : Roman
Die Hauptstrasse : Carola Kennicotts Geschichte. Roman
Electronic books
"Carol Milford tries to reform her new hometown. A satire of small towns" --Provided by publisher.
Fiction
Powieść amerykańska
Calle mayor
University of Virginia. Library. Electronic Text Center.
Powieść amerykańska 20 w. tłumaczenia polskie.