Books with title MAIN STREET

A classic American novel which 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. Main Street was the first major commercial success for the American novelist and playwright who, in 1930, became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

“This is America ... its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere ...” With the first line of his novel, Sinclair Lewis captures an America on the brink of change. Main Street vividly draws the lines of tension between tradition and progress in ways that make them timeless, yet still new. 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.

Written in 1920 by Sinclair Lewis (so dated but very interesting of course). Carol Milford is a college student in Minneapolis & has dreams of building a paradise out of a prairie village. Becoming a librarian after graduation, she meets Dr. Will Kennicott in St. Paul where she works, they begin dating, and of course they marry eventually and even move 'back' to Kennicott's hometown of Gopher Prairie. Carol finds it despicable & provincial. Enter Bea Sorenson who arrives in Gopher Prairie on the same day as Carol. Awestruck by the magnificence of the town, which is larger than any she town has ever seen, Bea decides to stay and becomes Carol's maid. An interesting tale... from the early 20th century in USA ....

In this classic, Sinclair Lewis shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire. Main Street attacks the conformity and dullness of early 20th Century mid western village life in the story of Carol Milford, the city girl who marries the town doctor. Her efforts to bring culture to the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, and petty small-minded bigotry.

Main Street "Respectable-looking individual makes his bow and addresses the public. In my daily walks along the principal street of my native town, it has often occurred to me, that, if its growth from infancy upward, and the vicissitude of characteristic scenes that have passed along this thoroughfare during the more than two centuries of its existence, could be presented to the eye in a shifting panorama, it would bean exceedingly effective method of illustrating the march of time. " "Main Street" has a beautiful glossy cover and a blank page for the dedication. The book has 96 pages.

Halloween isn't at all what you've read in stories. As it turns out, witches aren't warty old women (for 2/3rds of the day), and werewolves don't need the full moon to hunt. Vampires hoard their treasures worse than any dragon, and mummies see more than most as they stalk the woods at night. For the first time, humans are allowed a glimpse into this world, and the true essence of not just the holiday, but the creatures we think we know. Enter the street where Halloween lives every day and see for yourself what lies beyond. And who knows? You may find friends waiting for you.