Lewis, Sinclair 1885-1951

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis ( Book )
381 editions published between 1920 and 2011 in 23 languages and held by 5,953 libraries worldwide
A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there.

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis ( Book )
562 editions published between 1026 and 2011 in 25 languages and held by 5,792 libraries worldwide
George F. Babbitt is a hustling, proserous real estate broker in a city of about 350,000. Back of his business and clubs and 100% activities is a wistful wonder as to what this business of living is all about.

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis ( Book )
316 editions published between 1900 and 2011 in 25 languages and held by 4,934 libraries worldwide
After years of work as a small town doctor and a research scientist, Arrowsmith heads for the West Indies with a serum to halt an epidemic. A tragic turn of events forces him to come to terms with his career and his personal life.

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis ( Book )
225 editions published between 1927 and 2011 in 16 languages and held by 3,790 libraries worldwide
High pressure evangelism's effect on title character.

It can't happen here by Sinclair Lewis ( Book )
100 editions published between 1935 and 2009 in 14 languages and held by 3,110 libraries worldwide
A dark satire about the rise of a fascist American dictator.

Dodsworth; a novel by Sinclair Lewis ( Book )
170 editions published between 1921 and 2010 in 16 languages and held by 3,024 libraries worldwide
A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships.

Cass Timberlane, a novel of husbands and wives by Sinclair Lewis ( Book )
79 editions published between 1945 and 2009 in 13 languages and held by 2,884 libraries worldwide
Marriage of a judge and his unstable young wife in a small Minnesota town.

Kingsblood royal by Sinclair Lewis ( Book )
79 editions published between 1938 and 2004 in 17 languages and held by 2,764 libraries worldwide
Man discovers one of his forebears was a Negro and experiences what it is to be a Negro in a northern town where presumably prejudice is non-existent.

Main Street & Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis ( Book )
10 editions published between 1992 and 2002 in English and held by 1,992 libraries worldwide
In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. These remarkable novels combine brilliant satire with a lingering affection for the men and women who, as Lewis wrote of Babbitt, want "to seize something more than motor cars and a house before it's too late."

Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis ( Book )
93 editions published between 1923 and 1994 in 15 languages and held by 1,618 libraries worldwide
Biographical novel of an intelligent, energetic woman portraying her interest in social work and prison reform.