De Verenigde Staten, 1936. Journalist Doremus Jessup verslaat de verkiezingscampagne van de xenofobe en haatzaaiende populist Berzelius 'Buzz' Windrip. In zijn allereerste campagneweek presenteert Windrip zijn verkiezingsbelofte: ieder gezin ontvangt $5000,- per jaar; vrouwen dienen terug te keren naar hun 'heilige plichten als huisvrouw'; Afro-Amerikanen mogen niet stemmen, een hogere opleiding dan de middelbare school genieten of meer dan $10.000 per jaar verdienen; Joden die weigeren 'trouw te zweren aan het Nieuwe Testament' mogen geen overheidsfuncties meer bekleden. Wanneer Windrip met een overweldigende meerderheid van de stemmen tot president verkozen wordt, ontpopt zich al snel een fascistisch regime. Politieke tegenstanders worden opgesloten in concentratiekampen, dissidenten vluchten naar het buitenland en Mexico, Canada en delen van Zuid-Amerika dreigen op gewelddadige wijze geannexeerd te worden. Jessup gelooft niet dat de situatie stand zal houden - of toch? In Dat gebeurt hier niet toonde Sinclair Lewis reeds in 1935 aan: het kan hier wél gebeuren.

Dat gebeurt hier niet

Sinclair Lewis's "Mantrap" is a keenly observed narrative that delves into the complexities of human relationships and societal expectations, set against the backdrop of the rugged Canadian wilderness. The novel employs a blend of incisive realism and satirical prose, hallmark traits of Lewis'Äôs literary style, to explore themes of love, desire, and the disillusionment of ambition. Through its depiction of an unconventional love triangle, the plot reveals the contradictions and struggles faced by its characters, reflecting the changing landscape of American morals during the 1920s. Lewis, a groundbreaking author and the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, often drew inspiration from his own experiences living in small towns and engaging with the societal mores of his time. "Mantrap," published in 1926, showcases his acute awareness of the human condition and his tendency to critique the very fabric of American society. This work was undoubtedly influenced by Lewis'Äôs deep understanding of human motivations and a desire to unravel the underlying tensions within relationships and societal structures. Readers looking for a thought-provoking examination of interpersonal dynamics amidst an evocative setting will find "Mantrap" both engaging and enriching. Lewis'Äôs blend of keen social criticism and lyrical storytelling invites readers to reflect on their own lives while captivating them with the wilderness'Äôs untamed charm. Highly recommended for those interested in classic American literature and the evolution of social commentary.

Mantrap

"It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis is a satirical novel that depicts the rise of a fascist government in the United States, exploring themes of power, democracy, and individual freedom. Through the story of a demagogic politician who becomes president, Lewis warns against the fragility of democracy and the dangers of authoritarianism. The novel is a critical examination of American society and politics in the 1930s, highlighting the potential for tyranny even in a democratic nation.

It Can't Happen Here

Buzz Windrip, für seine Gegner ein "ungebildeter Lügner mit idiotischer Weltanschauung" und ein gefährlicher Populist, will Präsidentschaftskandidat werden. Er gibt vor, sich für die kleinen Leute einzusetzen, und verspricht, "aus Amerika wieder ein stolzes Land zu machen". Trotz völlig unglaubwürdiger Versprechen laufen ihm die Wähler zu, und er zieht ins Weiße Haus ein. Sogleich regiert er wie ein absolutistischer Herrscher, beschneidet die Freiheiten der Minderheiten, legt sich mit Mexiko an und lässt seine Kritiker rabiat verfolgen. Einer davon ist der liberale Zeitungsherausgeber Doremus Jessup, der sich nicht mundtot machen lassen will.

Das ist bei uns nicht möglich (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Ralph Prescott håller på att tappa balansen. Livet som advokat i New York City tär på honom, men framför allt tankarna på att saker och ting inte blev som han hade hoppats plågar honom. För att finna tillbaka till meningen tar han en resa ut i Kanadas vildmarker. Men det blir inte som han tänkt sig. Vildmarken är tuff och det är lätt att gå vilse. Han blir erbjuden att stanna över hos en vänlig man, och det är då han först gången träffar den vackra, charmiga Alverna. Det blir upptakten till en snårig kärlekshistoria som bara kan sluta på ett sätt... Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en amerikansk författare. Lewis var den förste amerikanska författare som fick Nobelpriset i litteratur (1930).

Fällan

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books."

Babbitt

Free Air is a 1919 novel written by Sinclair Lewis. A silent film adaptation of the novel was also released on April 30, 1922. The film starred Tom Douglas as Milt Daggett and Marjorie Seaman as Claire Boltwood. This cheerful little road novel, published in 1919, is about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, where she falls in love with a nice, down-to-earth young man and gives up her snobbish Estate.

Free Air

The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1917. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, who desires to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920's and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania town to New York. Forced to work due to family illness, Una shows a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate and, while valued by her company, she struggles to achieve the same status of her male coworkers. On a parallel track, her quest for traditional romance and love is important but her unique role as a working woman... makes it tough to find an appropriate suitor. The Job was published before Lewis achieved any significant fame and provides insights on working women as well as the unique nature (for the time) of having a woman as the lead character. Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women.

The Job

The Innocents, A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1917. “Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequently they were guilty of holding hands, or of cuddling together in corners, and Father was a person of stubborn youthfulness.” It is only by subterfuge that Seth is able every year to obtain his two week's vacation from the shoe store, and they are off to the farm-house of Uncle Joe Tubbs on Cape Cod. But this year the vacation turns into a full blown scheme to open a country tea room somewhere on Cape Cod, and their life suddenly begins to change. . . . Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women.

The Innocents

The Ghost Patrol and Other Stories is a collection of novellas and short stories written by Sinclair Lewis, and published between 1917 and 1919. Stories included are: The Ghost Patrol (1917) Young Man Axelbroad (1917) The Willow Walk (1918) Moths in the Arc Light (1919) Speed (1919) The Cat of the Stars (1919) The Kidnapped Memorial (1919) Things (1919) Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women.

The Ghost Patrol and Other Stories

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1922. Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises you. As you begin to like him, he does something to evoke the “what a rat” response. Male menopause wasn’t a pre Great Depression term, but I would say George has all the symptoms. At a pudgy balding forty six he looks at his life, wife, family and business. He sees himself as a pretty successful business man, but when Tanis, the lonely widow, has a leaky roof, he sees an opportunity for perhaps a more fulfilling relationship then he has at home. Add to Tanis a foray into radical politics, and we are about to whiteness an emotional and financial train wreck with Babbitt at the throttle. This is a long story, but well worth listening to. Human nature hasn’t changed much in the last ninety years. Largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure toward conformity. An immediate and controversial bestseller, Babbitt was influential in the decision to award Lewis the Nobel Prize in literature in 1930. Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women.

The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life is a 1915 novel by Sinclair Lewis. The story follows the life of Carl Ericson as he grows up and matures. He has to face the choice of either going to his town college, to a private school with a childhood friend, or live in the wilderness with his older friend, who had a cottage in the middle of the forest.

The Trail of the Hawk

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions [Edwin Abbott Abbott] Lady Susan [Jane Austen] R. Holmes & Co. [John Kendrick Bangs] Mrs. Raffles [John Kendrick Bangs] The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr] Love Insurance [Earl Derr Biggers] The Mirror of Kong Ho [Ernest Bramah Smith] The Ghost-Extinguisher [Frank Gelett Burgess] Erewhon, or Over The Range [Samuel Butler] Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice [James Branch Cabell] Sylvie and Bruno [Lewis Carroll] The Napoleon of Notting Hill [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton [Wardon Allan Curtis] Our Mutual Friend [Charles Dickens] Brother Jacob [George Eliot] Cheerful—By Request [Edna Ferber] Cabbages and Kings [O. Henry] Crome Yellow [Aldous Huxley] All Roads Lead to Calvary [Jerome Klapka Jerome] Babbitt [Sinclair Lewis] Parnassus On Wheels [Christopher Morley] Beasts and Super-Beasts [Saki] A Tale of Negative Gravity [Frank R. Stockton] Gulliver's Travels [Jonathan Swift] Botchan [Natsume Sōseki] A Voyage to the Moon [George Tucker] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Mark Twain] The Wheels of Chance [H. G. Wells] The Canterville Ghost [Oscar Wilde] My Man Jeeves [P. G. Wodehouse]

30 Humorous Masterpieces you have to read before you die

The Innocents: A Story for Lovers is a 1917 novel by Sinclair Lewis. This distinctive pulp novel follows a longtime married couple as they vacation away from their home in New York City and contemplate starting a business.

Babbitt (1922), 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".|Lewis has been both criticized and congratulated for his unorthodox writing style in Babbitt. One reviewer said "There is no plot whatever... Babbitt simply grows two years older as the tale unfolds." Plot | Lewis presents a chronological series of scenes in the life of his title character. After introducing George F. Babbitt as a middle-aged man, "nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay," Lewis presents a meticulously detailed description of Babbitt's morning routine. Each item Babbitt encounters is explained, from the high-tech alarm clock, which Babbitt sees as a marker of social status, to the rough camp blanket, a symbol of the freedom and heroism of the West. As he dresses for the day, Babbitt contemplates each article of his "Solid Citizen" uniform, the most important being his Booster's club button, which he wears with pride. The first seven chapters follow Babbitt's life over the course of a single day. Over breakfast Babbitt dotes on his ten-year-old daughter Tinka, tries to dissuade his 22-year-old daughter Verona from her newfound socialist leanings, and encourages his 17-year-old son Ted to try harder in school. At the office he dictates letters and discusses real estate advertising with his employees...|Wikipedia|

Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown. The novel takes place in the 1910s, with references to the start of World War I, the United States' entry into the war, and the years following the end of the war, including the start of Prohibition. Satirizing small town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book, and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents of Gopher Prairie. Highly acclaimed upon publication, Main Street remains a recognized American classic. Plot |Carol Milford, the daughter of a judge, grew up in Mankato, Minnesota, and became an orphan in her teens. In college, she reads a book on village improvement in a sociology class and begins to dream of redesigning villages and towns. After college, she attends a library school in Chicago and is exposed to many radical ideas and lifestyles. She becomes a librarian in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state capital, but finds the work unrewarding. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is a small-town boy at heart...|Wikipedia|

Main Street

Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man is a 1914 novel by Sinclair Lewis and the first to be published under his real name. Mr. Wrenn, an employee of a novelty company, quits his job after inheriting a fortune from his father. He decides to go traveling.

Our Mr. Wrenn

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 for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920s and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania town to New York. Forced to work due to family illness, Una shows a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate and, while valued by her company, she struggles to achieve the same status of her male coworkers. On a parallel track, her quest for traditional romance and love is important but her unique role as a working woman, doing a man's job, makes it tough to find an appropriate suitor.

Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets a country doctor, Will Kennicott, who convinces her to marry him and move to the rural Minnesota town of Gopher Prairie. She arrives with dreams of beautifying the town, of establishing art and culture, of improving lives and promoting child welfare, but whose spirit is gradually and inexorably crushed by small-town attitudes, ignorance and bigotry. First published in 1920, Main Street is Sinclair Lewis' first major novel, and was a phenomenal success at the time. In 1930 Lewis would be the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.

Babbitt (1922), 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. The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown. The novel takes place in the 1910s, with references to the start of World War I, the United States' entry into the war, and the years following the end of the war, including the start of Prohibition. Satirizing small town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book, and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents of Gopher Prairie. Highly acclaimed upon publication, Main Street remains a recognized American classic.

This book contains several HTML tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Monk Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street London, Jack: The Call of the Wild Lovecraft, H.P.: At the Mountains of Madness Mann, Thomas: Royal Highness Maugham, William Somerset: Of Human Bondage Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick Poe, Edgar Allan: The Fall of the House of Usher Proust, Marcel: Swann's Way Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa Sand, George: The Devil’s Pool Scott, Walter: Ivanhoe Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein Sienkiewicz, Henryk: Quo Vadis Sinclair, May: Life and Death of Harriett Frean Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle Stendhal: The Red and the Black Stendhal: The Chartreuse of Parma Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island Stoker, Bram: Dracula Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels Tagore, Rabindranath: The Home and the World Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth Wallace, Lew: Ben-Hur Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine West, Rebecca: The Return of the Soldier Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray Xueqin, Cao: The Dream of the Red Chamber Zola, Émile: Germinal

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2 [newly updated] (Book House Publishing)

Fred Cornplow er en typisk familiefar i den amerikanske middelklasse i 1930‘erne. Han bliver mere og mere træt af sin egoistiske voksne datter, Sarah, og sin søn, Howard, der aldrig rigtig har fået gang i sit liv. De ser deres far som et ligegyldigt og forældet væsen, der kun er deres opmærksomhed værd, når de har brug for penge. Men Fred gider ikke finde sig i det mere. Der er ikke tale om et ungdomsoprør, men et forældreoprør fra en far, der insisterer på, at forældre også er mennesker. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

Forældre er også mennesker

Carl "Hawk" Ericson drømmer stort og satser stort. Vi følger ham, fra han er ganske ung, og ser ham jage den ene drøm efter den anden. Både romantik og karriere appellerer til den unge mand, men på trods af sine drømme om at blive advokat, ingeniør, footballspiller og meget andet ender han med at droppe ud af college og i stedet tage småjobs som chauffør, bartender og dørmand. "Falkens" gennembrud kommer, da han beslutter sig for at blive pilot og en helt ny verden – en verden, han kan begå sig i – åbner sig for ham. "Falkeflugt" er en bildungsroman med masser af humor og glimt i øjet. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

Falkeflugt

I "Kunstværket" følger vi tre generationer af Weagle-familien, som alle er vokset op som både arbejdere og beboere på forskellige hoteller og pensionater. Ora er i modsætning til resten af familien slet ikke indstillet på det trivielle og ensformige hotelliv. Han er poetisk og flyvsk, men alligevel ikke hævet over at tigge penge fra sin fornuftige og intrigante bror Myron, der på mange måder er Oras modsætning. Sinclair Lewis‘ roman "Kunstværket" afbilleder på mesterlig vis den kolde jagt på materiel velstand i 1930‘ernes USA. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

Kunstværket

Gideon Planish er en veltalende opportunist, der er fast besluttet på at kravle så langt og hurtigt som muligt op ad den sociale rangstige. Han bruger sine usædvanlige talegaver til at planlægge store fundraisere for tvivlsomme velgørenhedsorganisationer uden at gå op i, hvad pengene rent faktisk går til. Men Gideon Planishs ambitioner rækker længere end det, og efter han er blevet professor i retorik og har mødt sin drømmekvinde, beslutter han sig for at sigte efter en karriere i politik uden rigtig at vide, hvad hans mål og mærkesager skal være. Det skal han nok finde ud af, når han er blevet valgt. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

En mand gør karriere

Neil Kingsblood har aldrig lagt synderligt mærke til racismen i det amerikanske samfund. Han bor med sin familie i et nabolag, der kun er for hvide mennesker, og på den måde er det let at ignorere den uretfærdighed, der endnu florerer i USA i midten af 1900-tallet. Alt ændrer sig imidlertid for den stilfærdige bankmand, da han opdager, at han nedstammer fra en afrikansk eventyrer, der arbejdede som pelsjæger i de amerikanske grænselande for mange år siden. Udadtil ligner Neil enhver anden hvid amerikaner, men opdagelsen af sin ægte baggrund får ham til at se på sig selv og det raceopdelte samfund, han lever i, på en helt ny måde. Hvor hører han egentligt til henne? I den trivielle bankverden befolket af hvide mænd eller på barrikaderne med de sorte borgerrettighedsforkæmpere? Da folk i hans omgangskreds får nys om hans sande ophav, udvikler historien sig i en meget grim retning... Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

Af kongeblod - Bind 1

Af kongeblod - Bind 2

Ann Vickers er en ung idealistisk kvinde fra det amerikanske Midwest. Da hun er færdig med college i starten af det tyvende århundrede, bliver hun involveret i suffragettebevægelsen og går i fængsel for sin sag. Under indespærringen erfarer hun, at det ikke kun er kvinders stemmeret, der skal kæmpes for. Hun beslutter sig for at dedikere sin tid til at gøre livet bedre for samfundets dårligst stillede, både dem inden for og uden for fængslets mure. Sideløbende med hendes arbejde for at forbedre samfundet følger vi Ann Vickers‘ komplicerede kærlighedsliv, hendes arbejde som socialrådgiver under Første Verdenskrig og hendes andre oplevelser i det amerikanske samfund i mellemkrigstiden. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

Ann Vickers

Una Golden er en ung amerikansk kvinde, der i starten af det tyvende århundrede kæmper en hård kamp for at blive værdsat på arbejdsmarkedet på samme vilkår som sine mandlige kolleger. Hun er dygtig og ikke bange for at gå ind i ejendomsbranchen, som ellers er totalt domineret af mænd. Men Una ønsker også at blive gift en dag, og det viser sig at være overordentligt svært at finde en mand, der kan finde sig til rette med at være gift med en karrierekvinde. "Kampen" beskriver den kvindekamp, der var godt i gang i USA i starten af 1900-tallet, og bliver anset som en af de første amerikanske romaner, der slår et slag for kvinders rettigheder på arbejdsmarkedet. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

Kampen

Hvad ville der ske, hvis USA fik en diktator? DET KAN IKKE SKE HER fra 1935 er en forudseende og advarende roman, der påviser, at det kan ske. I 1936 stiller Bezelius "Buzz" Windrip op som demokratisk præsidentkandidat med lovning om at genoprette USA som et stolt og rigt land med velstand og fremgang. Han advokerer for patriotisme og traditionelle amerikanske værdier og slår let sine modstandere - heriblandt den siddende præsident Franklin D. Roosevelt. DET KAN IKKE SKE HER fortælles gennem øjnene på den liberale journalist Doremus Jessup, der følger Windrips vej til præsidentposten og siden modarbejder hans regime ved at arbejde for undergrundsavisen Vermont Vigilance. DET KAN IKKE SKE HER var oprindeligt en kommentar til fascismens fremgang i Europa - Præsident Windrip tager på Hitler- og SS-maner total kontrol over regeringen - men romanen er i 2016 af flere medier blevet udråbt til "romanen, der forudså Trump". Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

Det kan ikke ske her

I midten af det nittende århundrede skyller den religiøse vækkelsesbølge ind over USA, og Aaron bliver i den grad skyllet med. Han beslutter sig for at blive missionær i det vilde Minnesota. Men hvilken gud finder han, og hvilken form har den? Da Aaron når frem, viser det sig, at det ikke så meget er ham, der skal missionere over for andre, men derimod de andre, der slås om at få ham omvendt til deres livsfilosofi. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

Manden, der søgte gud

Claire Boltwood er en ung rig kvinde fra New York City, der længes efter noget andet end det forudsigelige overfladiske liv i New Yorks snobbede overklasse. Helt alene begiver hun sig ud på en roadtrip mod Stillehavets kyst i håb om at lære en anden side af verden at kende og finde en mening med livet, der indtil nu har undsluppet hende. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

Kærlighed og benzin

Bethel Merriday er en ung kvinde, der har en altoverskyggende drøm: at blive skuespillerinde. Vi følger hende gennem en årrække, hvor vi ser hende blive overset og ignoreret af resten af hendes skuespillertrup, og vi er med, da hun endelig får chancen for at brillere i en moderne opsætning af "Romeo og Julie". Men vil hun brillere? Har hun virkelig det nødvendige talent, eller er hun blevet forblændet af sit eget brændende ønske om berømmelse? Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

Bethel Merriday

Mr. Wrenn arbejder for et souvenirfirma, og han er ved at kede sig ihjel. Han drømmer om at komme ud at rejse, allerhelst til udlandet, som fremstår for ham som et magisk og overjordisk sted, der på alle måder er bedre end det USA, han kender alt for godt. Da han en dag arver en pæn portion penge, siger han op og ser frem til sit nye fortryllende liv. Desværre er livet som arbejdsløs slet ikke, som mr. Wrenn forventede, og det viser sig at være langt mere besværligt at komme ud at rejse, end den stakkels drømmer havde forestillet sig. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

Mr. Wrenn

Ralph Prescott er håbløst stresset over sit liv som advokat i 1920‘ernes New York. Sammen med en bekendt, E. Wesson Woodbury, beslutter han sig for at drage ud i den canadiske vildmark for at komme væk fra storbyens stress og jag og komme i kontakt med naturen. Naturen er måske nok fredelig, men det er de to mænds interne forhold ikke. De hakker på hinanden, skændes over de mindste ting, og jo længere de når ind i den canadiske vildmark, des mere går de hinanden på nerverne, samtidig med at de bliver mere og mere afhængige af hinanden for overlevelse. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) var en populær og berømt amerikansk forfatter, da han levede, men også i dag er han populær. Han er især kendt for sine satiriske og dystopiske beskrivelser af sociale institutioner og relationer.

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The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis was published in 1915. The Trail of the Hawk, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not at the time of release a smashing success as his later works, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and others, but his style and immense talent are certainly evident. We travel with The Hawk, or Carl Ericson, son of Norwegian immigrants, born at the end of the 19th century through the first three adventurous periods of the young man’s life. We see him as an adventurous boy, running away with Gertie Cowels, the girl that lives in the big house in the better part of town, only to be rescued by Bone Stillman, a backwoods philosopher and influence on Carl. We travel with him as he leaves his childhood, Gertie and Joralemon behind, for a short attempt at higher education, then to pursue the hobo life, a Bowery bartender, an engineer in Panama and an aviator. It is during the aviator phase that he becomes Hawk Ericson barnstorming his way across America, an exciting but dangerous lifestyle. Leaving aviation after too many close calls, and the loss of his best friend, he becomes an automobile man, and moves into phase three. It is in phase three, love adventure, that we find The Hawk in New York, mingling with polite society quite by accident. He is smitten by Ruth Winslow, while riding on a streetcar after a fight with Gertie, and follows Ruth to a party which he crashes. The listener will enjoy it, a trip into post Victorian, pre Jazz Age America. Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women.

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man is a 1914 novel by Sinclair Lewis. "At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always bending over bills and columns of figures at a desk behind the stock-room. He was a meek little bachelor--a person of inconspicuous blue ready-made suits, and a small unsuccessful mustache." Mr. Wrenn, however has a rich inner life embellished by his own imagination. When he comes into a modest inheritance, he feels he ought to learn to get out and wander a bit, and then his education begins. He finds life more "interesting", perhaps than he had "imagined". . . Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women.

Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). Lewis was greatly assisted in its preparation by science writer Paul de Kruif, who received 25% of the royalties on sales, although Lewis was listed as the sole author. Arrowsmith is an early major novel dealing with the culture of science. It was written in the period after the reforms of medical education flowing from the Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, which had called on medical schools in the United States to adhere to mainstream science in their teaching and research. The book was adapted by Hollywood as Arrowsmith in 1931, featuring Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay.

Arrowsmith

This powerful novel was written late in the career of Sinclair Lewis, it explores themes of love, marriage, heartache, trust and redemption in a small Minnesota town.

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A blistering rebuke of religious hypocrisy, Elmer Gantry is the story of a charismatic and manipulative social climber who rises to power within his church, despite his insincerity. Though he preaches against immorality and temptation, Reverend Dr Elmer Gantry can’t seem to give up his own vices, and he leaves a trail of broken people behind him in his pursuit of pleasure and power, betraying anybody and doing anything to get ahead. Published in 1927, the novel created a furore upon its publication, resulting in threats of violence against the author, who was called ‘Satan’s cohort’. However, the book was a commercial success, and it is considered a landmark in American literature. It is recognised today for its prescient depiction of power and fanaticism.

Elmer Gantry

Mantrap Sinclair Lewis - A burned-out New York lawyer's vacation in the Canadian wilderness takes a troubled detour in this novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Main Street. Lawyer Frank Prescott is exhausted. The forty-year-old bachelor works late into the night, poring over documents. When he sleeps, he wakes up in a panic. Not even a round of golf at his country club or a Broadway show helps calm him down. He just wants to escape the city and feel as though he can breathe again. So, when his fellow club member, E. Wesson Woodbury, invites him along on a canoeing and fishing trip in Saskatchewan, Prescott gladly accepts. However, nothing about the excursion is relaxing. As the journey begins, tensions mount and tempers flare between Prescott and Woodbury. When they meet the rugged Joe Easter, a Canadian trading company owner, the man welcomes Prescott to fish at his home in Mantrap Landing. Prescott is happy to join him. But between Easter's lonely wife, unrest among the area's indigenous Cree tribes, and a dangerous race down the rapids, getting back home safely will be the only thing that can calm Frank Prescott's nerves . . .

Published in 1925, Arrowsmith is the story of Martin Arrowsmith, a gifted scientist making his way from a small Midwestern town to the apex of the scientific community. Arrowsmith follows the titular character from medical school through stints as a small-town doctor and regional health official to his discovery of a virus that destroys bacteria. Arrowsmith was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but the award was declined by the author. It has been adapted for radio, film and television.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis - First published in 1920, Main Street is a biting and satirical look at small town America. Set in the 1910s it follows the struggles of its heroine, Carol Milford, to adapt to small town life. Carol, a young and progressive librarian living in St Paul, Minnesota, falls in love with and marries Will Kennicott, a doctor who dreams of returning to the small town of his childhood. Carol agrees and they move to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a town modeled on Sinclairs own hometown of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Carol is disappointed by the towns drab appearance and its provincial, small-minded inhabitants. Brimming with optimism and tenacity, she sets out to convince the town to modernize and embrace her progressive values. Her ideas are not received as she hoped and instead she is resisted at every turn and derided by her fellow townsfolk. For all its seeming bleakness, Carol is ever optimistic and refuses to give up or believe the fight isnt worth fighting. Main Street exemplifies Lewis vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters, which was cited by the Nobel Prize for Literature committee when he was awarded the prize in 1930. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

“Babbitt” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Babbitt” is a satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis, 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 Willow Walk” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. “The Willow Walk” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis. “From the drawer of his table Jasper Holt took a pane of window glass. He laid a sheet of paper on the glass and wrote, “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” He studied his round business-college script, and rewrote the sentence in a small finicky hand, that of a studious old man. Ten times he copied the words in that false pinched writing. He tore up the paper, burned the fragments in his large ash tray and washed the delicate ashes down his stationary washbowl. He replaced the pane of glass in the drawer, tapping it with satisfaction. A glass underlay does not retain an impression.” Preview.

The Willow Walk

“Arrowsmith” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Arrowsmith” is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). Arrowsmith tells the story of bright and scientifically minded Martin Arrowsmith of Elk Mills, Winnemac (the same fictional state in which several of Lewis's other novels are set), as he makes his way from a small town in the Midwest to the upper echelons of the scientific community at a prestigious foundation in New York City.

“The Ghost Patrol” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. “The Ghost Patrol” is a short story by Sinclair Lewis. “Donald Patrick Dorgan had served forty-four years on the police force of Northernapolis, and during all but five of that time he had patrolled the Forest Park section. Don Dorgan might have been a sergeant, or even a captain, but it had early been seen at headquarters that he was a crank about Forest Park. For hither he had brought his young wife, and here he had built their shack; here his wife had died, and here she was buried. It was so great a relief in the whirl of department politics to have a man who was contented with his job that the Big Fellows were glad of Dorgan, and kept him there where he wanted to be, year after year, patrolling Forest Park.” Preview.

The Ghost Patrol

“Main Street” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Main Street” is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis. Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book, and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents of Gopher Prairie. Highly acclaimed upon publication, Main Street remains a recognized American classic.

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