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The Trail Of The HawkA Comedy Of The Seriousness Of Life (Edition1)

The Trail Of The HawkA Comedy Of The Seriousness Of Life (Edition1)

Sinclair Lewis

Double 9 Books LLP
2025
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The trail of the hawk: A comedy of the seriousness of life follows a boy's transformation into adulthood as he struggles to reconcile imaginative longing with the demands of identity, culture, and responsibility. The story uses ordinary moments play, family interaction, and small-town observation to explore how meaning is formed not through grand events but through persistent reflection and change. As the boy matures, he begins to challenge the rigid expectations tied to heritage and routine, looking beyond familiar paths in search of personal authenticity. The narrative frames childhood not just as a period of innocence but as the ground for emotional tension and early resistance. With quiet intensity, it reveals how early encounters and internal conflicts lay the foundation for later choices, independence, and compromise. The story resists portraying growth as a straight ascent and instead allows for uncertainty, contradiction, and introspection. In doing so, it casts seriousness not as a burden but as a necessary element of becoming, using humor and clarity to illuminate how a life of purpose slowly takes form.
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The JobAn American Novel (Edition1)

The JobAn American Novel (Edition1)

Sinclair Lewis

Double 9 Books LLP
2025
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The job: An American novel explores a woman's pursuit of autonomy in a society structured to limit her aspirations. The narrative moves beyond domestic expectation to confront the barriers women face when stepping into public and professional spheres. As the central figure attempts to redefine her role, the novel examines the emotional and social cost of self-determination. Her journey is marked by quiet resistance to inherited roles and an unyielding desire to shape her own future. Rather than dramatizing rebellion, the story reflects the persistence and calculation required to survive within rigid structures while still seeking progress. Through her movement from small-town routines to urban opportunity, the narrative reveals how personal ambition can be both a burden and a source of transformation. The text underscores how gendered expectations shape not only external paths but internal dialogues, revealing how identity is pieced together through confrontation with societal norms. The result is a portrait of quiet endurance, shaped by longing, effort, and the unrelenting drive for personal definition.
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Free Air (Edition1)

Free Air (Edition1)

Sinclair Lewis

Double 9 Books LLP
2025
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Free Air explores a young woman's pursuit of autonomy against the backdrop of social rigidity and physical travel. The novel traces the internal shift from inherited privilege toward a more grounded, personal understanding of freedom. As the protagonist navigates unfamiliar landscapes, the road becomes a metaphor for escape from expectations and the discovery of self through discomfort and effort. Tension between social class and individual value is a persistent undercurrent, highlighting how external status can obscure genuine connection and purpose. Movement through rural terrain brings her face to face with people and experiences far removed from the insulated world she knew, offering clarity through contrast. The novel resists romanticizing the journey, instead focusing on the slow, cumulative transformation that emerges from persistence and exposure to difference. By drawing attention to everyday obstacles, the narrative emphasizes resilience as a quiet force, not a dramatic break. The journey is not only outward but inward, a gradual relinquishing of inherited roles in favor of lived meaning and self-earned clarity.
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Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry

Sinclair Lewis

CBY PRESS
2025
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"Practise what you preach." Meet Elmer Gantry- a hypocritical preacher in relentless pursuit of worldly pleasure and power. Gantry is a goldentongued evangelist who rises to power within his church-a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless selfindulgence. Sinclair Lewis, through this satiric examination of evangelical religion, has aptly captured the growing cultural and political tension during the 1920s between the forces of secularism and fundamentalism. "Elmer Gantry" is the only record of the reign of grotesque vulgarity. The scandalous controversy stirred by the book even caused Lewis to be 'invited' to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia.Elmer Gantry has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.
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Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry

Sinclair Lewis

Blackstone Publishing
2006
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Elmer Gantry is the portrait of a silver-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church, yet lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence. The title character starts out as a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes the leader of a large Methodist congregation. Throughout the novel, Gantry encounters fellow religious hypocrites. Although often exposed as a fraud, Gantry is never fully discredited. When Elmer Gantry was first published in 1927, it created a public furor. Now it is considered a landmark in American literature and one of the most penetrating studies of hypocrisy in modern literature. The novel also represents the evangelistic activity of America in the 1920s and people's attitudes toward it.
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The Job

The Job

Sinclair Lewis; Ruth Robbins

FLAME TREE PUBLISHING
2022
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Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and a writer lauded both for his craft and his principles, wrote The Job as a statement of female empowerment, and self-determination over societal expectation. Written in the early years of the 1900s Lewis' central character, highly unusual for the era, is a woman, Una Golden, who gains work in an exclusively male world of commercial real estate. Golden struggles for the recognition of her male peers while balancing romantic and work life; she marries, divorces, continues to work hard and finally emerges triumphant on her own terms. Foundations of Feminist Fiction. The early 1900s saw a quiet revolution in literature dominated by male adventure heroes. Both men and women moved beyond the norms of the male gaze to write from a different gender perspective, sometimes with female protagonists, but also expressing the universal freedom to write on any subject whatsoever.
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Off with Their Heads!

Off with Their Heads!

Peggy Bacon; Sinclair Lewis; Robert Nathan

Literary Licensing, LLC
2011
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Off With Their Heads is a gripping historical account of the tumultuous reign of King Henry VIII of England, as told through the eyes of his six wives. Written by Peggy Bacon, this book offers a unique perspective on one of the most well-known monarchs in history, focusing on the women who were integral to his life and reign. Each of Henry's wives is given a voice in this book, from the beloved Catherine of Aragon to the ill-fated Anne Boleyn and beyond. Through their stories, readers gain insight into the political and social climate of Tudor England, as well as the personal struggles and triumphs of these remarkable women. With vivid descriptions and a compelling narrative, Off With Their Heads is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of England, the Tudor dynasty, or the lives of powerful women throughout history.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys

Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys

D. M. S. Fick

CamCat Publishing, LLC
2023
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A missing brooch. A face set in cement. This is not your average music festival. Lewis Sinclair, a stalwart and tender country musician, is about to take the stage with his band, the Gentlemen Cowboys, at the premier U.S. country music festival when his girl dumps him for the Cowboys' shifty manager. When that same manager ends up at FallFest's walk of fame with his handprints—and his head—in cement, Lew finds himself on the top ten most wanted list instead of the music charts.With the help of his loyal Cowboys and the close-knit festival staff, Lew must clear his name before the killer gets away—or strikes again.
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Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys

Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys

D. M. S. Fick

CamCat Publishing, LLC
2024
pokkari
A missing brooch. A face set in cement. This is not your average music festival. Lewis Sinclair, a stalwart and tender country musician, is about to take the stage with his band, the Gentlemen Cowboys, at the premier U.S. country music festival when his girl dumps him for the Cowboys' shifty manager. When that same manager ends up at FallFest's walk of fame with his handprints—and his head—in cement, Lew finds himself on the top ten most wanted list instead of the music charts.With the help of his loyal Cowboys and the close-knit festival staff, Lew must clear his name before the killer gets away—or strikes again.
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Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys

Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys

D. M. S. Fick

CamCat Publishing, LLC
2023
pokkari
A missing brooch. A face set in cement. This is not your average music festival. Lewis Sinclair, a stalwart and tender country musician, is about to take the stage with his band, the Gentlemen Cowboys, at the premier U.S. country music festival when his girl dumps him for the Cowboys' shifty manager. When that same manager ends up at FallFest's walk of fame with his handprints—and his head—in cement, Lew finds himself on the top ten most wanted list instead of the music charts.With the help of his loyal Cowboys and the close-knit festival staff, Lew must clear his name before the killer gets away—or strikes again.
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Babbitt

Babbitt

Lewis Sinclair

AldineTransaction
1997
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This satirical novel portrays George Follansbee Babbitt, a middle-aged, middle-class realtor in Zenith, the Zip City. His self-importance, utter lack of imagination, and ultimately middle-class outlook on the world around him is Lewis's unsentimental portrayal of post World War 1 small-town America. Despite George's vague dissatisfaction with his life, which he tried to change by "embracing" liberalism and beginning an affair with an attractive widow, he finds that the seeds of rebellion are just not within him, that he fears being an outcast more than he regrets his mundane life.
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