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The Job: An American Novel
After a family member tragically falls ill, Una Golden was forced to move from Pennsylvania to New York in order to get a job to help support her family. Set in the early 1900s, going to the big city as a single woman was daunting and unconventional, but Una...
THE Job: The Struggles of an Unconventional Wom...
The Job is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920s...
The Job
The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need...
The Job
Sinclair Lewis' scandalous tale of Una Golden, who dared to work, marry, divorce and find success in the male-dominated society of New York in the early 1900s. Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and a writer lauded both for...
The Job
Three years before the civic-minded Carol Kennicott came to life in Main Street, Una Golden was confronting the male dinosaurs of business. Like Carol, the heroine of The Job is one of Sinclair Lewis's most fully realized creations. Originally published in 1917, The...
The Job
Una Golden was a "good little woman"-not pretty, not noisy, not particularly articulate, but instinctively on the inside of things; naturally able to size up people and affairs. She had common sense and unkindled passion. She was a matter-of-fact idealist, with a healthy woman's...
The Job: An American Novel
The Job
CAPTAIN LEW GOLDEN would have saved any foreign observer a great deal of trouble in studying America. He was an almost perfect type of the petty small-town middle-class lawyer. He lived in Panama, Pennsylvania. He had never been "captain" of anything except the Crescent Volunteer...
The Job: An American Novel
The Job
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely...
The Job
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely...
The Job: An American Novel
The Job: An American Novel By Sinclair Lewis
The Job: An American Novel
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The Job
"With the great, one's thoughts and manners easily become great; ... what this country longs for is personalities, grand persons, to counteract its materialities," says Emerson. Such lives as are sketched in this book are a constant inspiration, both to young and old. They teach...
The Job; An American Novel
The Job; An American Novel
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The Job: An American Novel
The Job: An American Novel
The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. Despite the traditional expectations of marriage placed on Una Golden in her small Pennsylvania town, she travels to New York to work due...
The Job: An American Novel
The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. Despite the traditional expectations of marriage placed on Una Golden in her small Pennsylvania town, she travels to New York to work due...
The Job
The Job is a novel written by Sinclair Lewis that explores the life of a young man named Aloysius ""Al"" Timberman. The story is set in the early 1900s and follows Al as he navigates his way through various jobs and social situations in pursuit of success and happiness.Al begins...
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