Main Street is the Lewis novel best known in the author's birthplace, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, for in spite of its satire, it reflects the true nature of the town and its inhabitants. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Main Street (Modern Library 100 Best Novels). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Lewis Mumford maintains that Carol Kennicott's struggle with the stodgy, self-satisfied society of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere, since the same story could occur in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas, Kentucky, or Illinois. Main Street (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) - Kindle edition by Lewis, Sinclair. It is well written, full of a sharp sense of comedy, and rich in observation and completely designed. genuinely human but also authentically American. Connected also with the decline of the American village was the exodus to the cities of many of its brighter and more aggressive young people, in search of more attractive living conditions and better work opportunities. Lewis gives little recognition to the forces contributing to small-town deterioration, notably the advent of the automobile as a common means of transportation and the consequent increase of city buying at the expense of local trade. The book satirizes the ugliness and conformity found in small Midwest towns during the second decade of the twentieth century and ridicules the uninspired and self-satisfied inhabitants. Main Street became a household word, both in the United States and abroad, within a few years after the publication of Sinclair Lewis' widely read novel.
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