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Main Street

Main Street

Lewis, Sinclair
Allen, Brooke
Allen, Brooke

Paperback

Series: Barnes & Noble Classics

Classic Fiction

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ISBN10: 1593083866
ISBN13: 9781593083861
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
Published: Jun 1 2008
Pages: 496
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RMain Street&&L/I&&R, by &&LB&&RSinclair Lewis&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&R&&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R: &&LDIV&&R
  • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
  • Biographies of the authors
  • Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
  • Footnotes and endnotes
  • Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
  • Comments by other famous authors
  • Study questions to challenge the readers viewpoints and expectations
  • Bibliographies for further reading
  • Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics &&L/I&&Rpulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works.&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&R &&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&RThis is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. So &&LB&&RSinclair Lewis&&L/B&&R--recipient of the Nobel Prize and rejecter of the Pulitzer--prefaces his novel &&LI&&RMain Street&&L/I&&R. Lewis is brutal in his depictions of the self-satisfied inhabitants of small-town America, a place which proves to be merely an assemblage of pretty surfaces, strung together and ultimately empty.&&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LP&&R&&LB&&RBrooke Allen&&L/B&&R holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University. She is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including &&LI&&RThe Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Hudson Review&&L/I&&R, and &&LI&&RThe New Leader&&L/I&&R. A collection of her essays, &&LI&&RTwentieth Century Attitudes&&L/I&&R, will be published in 2003.&&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R

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