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Main Street (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781998736850
Publisher: Revive Classics
Published: Mar 18 2025
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.63
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Restless for adventure and meaning, Carol Kennicott dares to believe she can transform a sleepy Midwestern town into a beacon of culture and sophistication. But when she arrives in Gopher Prairie with grand visions of progress, she finds herself up against an unyielding wall of small-town tradition and quiet complacency. As she fights to inject beauty and change into a place that resists both, Carol is forced to confront not just the town's stubbornness, but the limitations of her own ideals. Sharp, satirical, and deeply human, her journey is a battle between ambition and reality in a world that clings to the familiar.
With biting satire and unflinching realism, Main Street shattered the romanticized image of small-town America, exposing its resistance to progress and deep-seated conformity. Sinclair Lewis's groundbreaking novel became a cultural lightning rod, sparking debates about the limits of individualism and the suffocating expectations of community life. Published in 1920, it captured the restless spirit of a changing nation, resonating with those who felt trapped between tradition and modernity. Its sharp critique of provincialism helped Lewis become the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, cementing Main Street as a landmark in literary history.
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