Publisher's Synopsis
Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott is a novel written by Sinclair Lewis and published in 1920. The story is set in the fictional town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, and follows the life of Carol Kennicott, a young woman who moves to the town with her husband, Will Kennicott, a doctor. Carol is a progressive and educated woman who finds herself struggling to fit in with the narrow-minded and conservative residents of Gopher Prairie.As she tries to make a life for herself in the town, Carol becomes increasingly disillusioned with the lack of culture and intellectual stimulation in Gopher Prairie. She becomes involved in various community activities, including the women's club and the town council, but finds that her ideas are often met with resistance and hostility.Throughout the novel, Carol struggles with her own identity and her place in the world. She is torn between her desire to conform to the expectations of her community and her longing for something more meaningful and fulfilling. Along the way, she forms relationships with various residents of Gopher Prairie, including the town's wealthy and influential businessman, Mr. Bogart, and the local newspaper editor, Miles Bjornstam.Main Street is a powerful critique of small-town life in America and the forces that drive conformity and complacency. It is a thought-provoking and engaging novel that explores themes of identity, community, and the search for meaning in an increasingly complex world.1920. Illustrated with scenes from the Photoplay, a Warner Brothers screen classic. Lewis, was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Possibly the greatest satirist of his age, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s. Although he ridiculed the values, the lifestyles, and even the speech of his characters, there is often affection behind the irony. Lewis began his career as a journalist, editor, and hack writer. He became an important literary figure with the publication of Main Street, the first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender roles, and small town life. The novel follows beautiful young Carol Kennicott who comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture, but instead runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
