Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
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About This Book
The first of Sinclair Lewis' great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis' sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the small town. But her efforts to reform the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, conventionality, pitifully unambi...
Chapters (62)
- MAIN STREET
- To James Branch Cabell and Joseph Hergesheimer
- CHAPTER I
- I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- I
- CHAPTER V
- I
- CHAPTER VI
- I
- CHAPTER VII
- I
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- I
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- SHE was marching home.
- CHAPTER XV
- THAT December she was in love with her husband.
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- I
- CHAPTER XVIII
- I
- CHAPTER XIX
- I
- CHAPTER XX
- I
- CHAPTER XXI
- I
- CHAPTER XXII
- I
- CHAPTER XXIII
- I
- CHAPTER XXIV
- I
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- I
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- SHE had walked up the railroad track with Hugh, this Sunday afternoon.
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI
- THEIR night came unheralded.
- CHAPTER XXXII
- I
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- CHAPTER XXXV
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- I
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- CHAPTER XXXIX
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