Amidst Sinclair Lewis’s many remarkable novels are more than a hundred short stories which he wrote over forty-four years. Selected Short Stories contains those selected by Lewis himself for a 1935 edition and illustrates the wide range of his art and interest: tales of romantic fantasy or escape, melodramas of heroic or mock-heroic adventure, boy-meets-girl stories, satires of pretension and folly, and tales of isolation and loneliness. Lewis often played variations on themes more fully developed in his novels. In his introduction, James W. Tuttleton calls Lewis “an excellent storyteller with an enviable command of narrative…At his best Lewis’s short stories, like his novels, accomplish the remarkable feat described by E.M. Forster: ‘What Mr. Lewis has done for myself and thousands of others is to lodge a piece of a continent in our imagination.’”
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Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), whose celebrated novels include Main Street, Babbitt, and Elmer Gantry, was the first American writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. James W. Tuttleton is Professor of English at New York University and the author of The Novel of Manners in America.
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Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and graduated from Yale University in 1908. His college career was interrupted by various part-time occupations, including a period working at the Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair's socialist experiment in New Jersey. He worked for some years as a free lance editor and journalist, during which time he published several minor novels. But with the publication of Main Street (1920), which sold half a million copies, he achieved wide recognition. This was followed by the two novels considered by many to be his finest, Babbitt (1922) and Arrowsmith (1925), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, but declined by Lewis. In 1930, following Elmer Gantry (1927) and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for distinction in world literature. This was the apogee of his literary career, and in the period from Ann Vickers (1933) to the posthumously published World So Wide (1951) Lewis wrote ten novels that reveal the progressive decline of his creative powers. From Main Street to Stockholm, a collection of his letters, was published in 1952, and The Man from Main Street, a collection of essays, in 1953. During his last years Sinclair Lewis wandered extensively in Europe, and after his death in Rome in 1951 his ashes were returned to his birthplace.
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Sorry, I didn't enjoy of these stories. Over involved about stuff and situations that are way out-dated, I guess.
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IN FRONT of the ? Wurry Gas & Fixit Station, at Mechanicville, New York, the proprietor, Mr. Rabbit Tait, sat elegantly upon a kitchen chair. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Uncle Rob, John Holt, Stacy Lindstrom, Queen Sidonie, Senator Ryder, Bessie Tait, Benescoten Tait, Poppy Peaks, Eddie Barnes, Miss Tully, Little Hell, New Mullion, Terry Tait, San Francisco, Red Cross, Miles O'Sullivan, Miss Tingle, Doctor Selig, San Coloquin, Polo Magenta, Don Dorgan, Higher Thought, Lumber National Bank, Forest Park Browse Sample Pages:
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IN FRONT of the ? Wurry Gas & Fixit Station, at Mechanicville, New York, the proprietor, Mr. Rabbit Tait, sat elegantly upon a kitchen chair. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
green feather, willow walk, other teller Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Uncle Rob, John Holt, Stacy Lindstrom, Queen Sidonie, Senator Ryder, Bessie Tait, Benescoten Tait, Poppy Peaks, Eddie Barnes, Miss Tully, Little Hell, New Mullion, Terry Tait, San Francisco, Red Cross, Miles O'Sullivan, Miss Tingle, Doctor Selig, San Coloquin, Polo Magenta, Don Dorgan, Higher Thought, Lumber National Bank, Forest Park Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Babbitt (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis in Back Matter
- Arrowsmith (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis in Back Matter
- Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street by Richard R. Lingeman in Back Matter
- Babbitt (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Sinclair Lewis in Front Matter
- Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America by Cecelia Tichi in Back Matter
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