Book · 1920 · Fiction

Main Street

Name: Main Street
Author: Sinclair Lewis

Library of America · 898 pages

★ 6.1 editorial score

Carol Milford marries a doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, determined to civilize it. The town wins, and Lewis made Main Street a byword for everything narrow and self-satisfied in American life.

Genre

Satire

Medium

Novel

Subject

Small town life Middle class Social class

Setting

Minnesota

Time

1920

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