Books with title MAIN STREET

Main Street is a classic satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis and published in 1920. The book centers around Carol Milford, a free-spirited young woman from Saint Paul Minnesota who marries a doctor from a small town. When Carol moves to the small town she sets out to reform it but finds it to be a near impossible task. Sinclair Lewis was a prominent American author in the 20th century. Lewis's books are noted for their insightful depictions of American capitalism and materialism. Lewis became the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. With novels such as Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, Lewis remains a popular author today.

Recorded during the blazing hot summer of 1971 at Villa Nellcôte, Keith Richards's seaside mansion in southern France, Exile on Main Street has been hailed as one of the greatest rock records of all time. Yet its improbable creation was difficult, torturous...and at times nothing short of dangerous. In self-imposed exile, the Stones-along with wives, girlfriends, and an unrivaled crew of hangers-on-spent their days smoking, snorting, and drinking whatever they could get their hands on, while at night, Villa Nellcôte's basement studio became the crucible in which creative strife, outsized egos, and all the usual byproducts of the Stones' legendary hedonistic excess fused into something potent, volatile, and enduring. Here, for the first time, is the season in hell that produced Exile on Main Street.

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle-class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in literature to Lewis in 1930. The word "Babbitt" entered the English language as a "person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards".Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920 and was nominated for Pulitzer Prize in 1921. It tells the story of Carol Milford, a woman of ambition and unconventional thinking, who is determined to change the Main Street into a better place.

Main Street is generally considered to be Lewis's most significant and enduring work, along with its 1922 successor Babbitt.Main Street was initially awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, but was rejected by the Board of Trustees, who overturned the jury's decision. The prize went, instead, to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence. In 1926 Lewis refused the Pulitzer when he was awarded it for Arrowsmith. In 1930, Lewis was the first American ever awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. While a Nobel Prize is awarded to the author not the work, and itself does not cite a particular work for which he was chosen, Main Street was Lewis' best-known work and enormously popular at the time. In the Nobel committee's presentation speech, both Main Street and Arrowsmith were cited.[5] The prize was awarded "...for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters."

Carol Milford is a young, liberated woman from Saint Paul, Minnesota, who marries a small-town doctor named Will Kennicott. Persuaded to move to Gopher Prairie, her husband s home-town, Carol is horrified to find herself living in an ugly, back-water community. A satiric depiction of Carol s attempt to raise the inhabitants of Gopher Prairie to her own smug level, Main Street is one of Sinclair Lewis s most significant works.