Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Loa #59)

by Sinclair Lewis

Book Overview

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. The remarkable novels presented here in this Library of America volume 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940450615
• ISBN13: 9780940450615
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 898 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher