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Main Street (Forgotten Classics): A Collector's Edition (Forgotten Classics)
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Main Street (Forgotten Classics)
Rediscover the cornerstone American satire that shattered the myth of small-town innocence, exposing a world where idealistic dreams wither against the relentless mediocrity of Main Street.
Sinclair Lewis’s explosive 1920 masterpiece returns in this deluxe Forgotten Classics edition, presenting the definitive portrait of an era that changed how America viewed itself. Carol Kennicott, a bright-eyed urban idealist, arrives in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, expecting a cozy village ripe for culture and reform. Instead, she finds a rigid fortress of smugness, suspicion, and suffocating conformity, where the greatest sin is daring to be different.
Carol declares a quiet war on the town's comfortable stagnation. She attempts to introduce art, literature, and civic improvement, but Gopher Prairie fights back with the devastating weapons of polite indifference and relentless gossip. As her marriage to the pragmatic Dr. Kennicott strains under the weight of her unfulfilled ambitions, Carol faces a terrifying choice between crushing her own spirit or being cast out by the only world she knows.
This is the novel that turned literature’s sharpest lens inward on the American heartland. Before F. Scott Fitzgerald critiqued the coasts, Lewis dissected the middle. This essential volume invites a new generation to confront the uncomfortable truths lurking behind the respectable facades of Main Street.
The book, Main Street (Forgotten Classics): A Collector's Edition (Forgotten Classics) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781592117949 in Hardcover by Lewis Sinclair may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
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- Publisher
- Histria Books
- Author
- Lewis Sinclair
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release date
- Nov 17, 2026
- ISBN-13
- 9781592117949
- ISBN-10
- 1592117945
- Pages
- 350
- Carton quantity
- 10 copies
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| Copies | Price per copy | You save |
|---|---|---|
| 25 – 99 | $21.82 | 41% off list |
| 100 – 249 | $20.71 | 44% off list |
| 250 – 499 | $19.60 | 47% off list |
| 500 – 999 | $18.86 | 49% off list |
| 1,000+ | $18.13 | 51% off list |
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