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    612-822-4611

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Main Street

Main Street

Lewis, Sinclair

Hardcover

Series: Forgotten Classics

Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $29.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 29, 2026

ISBN10: 1592117945
ISBN13: 9781592117949
Publisher: Histria Classics
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 350
Language: English
This deluxe collector's edition of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street presents the definitive, restored text of the 1920 classic that exposed the pressures of conformity and mediocrity in small-town America. A must-have for collectors and literary enthusiasts, it combines scholarly precision with elegant presentation for a new generation of readers.

Rediscover the cornerstone American satire that shattered the myth of small-town innocence, exposing a world where idealistic dreams wither against the relentless mediocrity of Main Street.

Sinclair Lewis's explosive 1920 masterpiece returns in this deluxe Forgotten Classics edition, presenting the definitive portrait of an era that changed how America viewed itself. Carol Kennicott, a bright-eyed urban idealist, arrives in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, expecting a cozy village ripe for culture and reform. Instead, she finds a rigid fortress of smugness, suspicion, and suffocating conformity, where the greatest sin is daring to be different.

Carol declares a quiet war on the town's comfortable stagnation. She attempts to introduce art, literature, and civic improvement, but Gopher Prairie fights back with the devastating weapons of polite indifference and relentless gossip. As her marriage to the pragmatic Dr. Kennicott strains under the weight of her unfulfilled ambitions, Carol faces a terrifying choice between crushing her own spirit or being cast out by the only world she knows.

This is the novel that turned literature's sharpest lens inward on the American heartland. Before F. Scott Fitzgerald critiqued the coasts, Lewis dissected the middle. This essential volume invites a new generation to confront the uncomfortable truths lurking behind the respectable facades of Main Street.

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