Sinclair Lewis

Imenno s "Glavnoj ulitsy" nachalas vsemirnaja slava Sinklera Ljuisa (1885-1951), odnogo iz krupnejshikh amerikanskikh prozaikov XX veka i pervogo amerikanskogo laureata Nobelevskoj premii po literature. Eto masshtabnoe i iskljuchitelno tochnoe opisanie zhizni amerikanskogo "srednego klassa" s glubokim proniknoveniem v kharaktery i sudby geroev. Tsentralnyj obraz romana - molodaja vypusknitsa universiteta Kerol, kotoraja vykhodit zamuzh za provintsialnogo vracha i poseljaetsja v nebolshom gorodke, Glavnaja ulitsa kotorogo sluzhit metaforoj nravov i obraza zhizni "srednej" Ameriki. Kerol polna energii i zhelanija rastormoshit razmerennoe do unylosti suschestvovanie obitatelej goroda, no kak oderzhat pobedu nad Glavnoj ulitsej?Podobnyj zdorovyj, osnovatelnyj i satiricheskij podkhod do sikh por otsutstvoval v amerikanskoj obschestvennoj mysli i literature. V kazhdoj strane est svoja Glavnaja ulitsa, kotoraja ostro nuzhdaetsja v diagnoze, no Amerike vesma poschastlivilos obresti v vas stol pronitsatelnogo i spravedlivogo issledovatelja.Dzhon GolsuorsiJa nikogda nichego ne pisal s bolshim uvlecheniem, chem "Glavnuju ulitsu"... Nadejus, chto eta kniga perezhivet svoe vremja.Sinkler LjuisPerevodchik: Gorfinkel Daniil

Molodoj talantlivyj vrach Martin Erousmit vsegda mechtal posvjatit svoju zhizn nauchnym issledovanijam na blago chelovechestva. Za chastnoj praktikoj v glukhoj provintsii sleduet rabota v krupnoj klinike v megapolise, a potom i dolzhnost v nauchnom institute. Odnako vezde Erousmit stalkivaetsja s pagubnym dlja professii, prizvannoj spasat zhizni, karerizmom kolleg, dlja kotorykh meditsina - obychnyj dokhodnyj biznes.No odnazhdy Martinu vse zhe vypadaet shans ispolnit svoi mechty o beskorystnoj pomoschi ljudjam i proverit sozdannoe im novoe lekarstvo v uslovijakh smertelno opasnoj epidemii...Roman byl polozhen v osnovu stsenarija odnoimennogo filma Dzhona Forda, nominirovannogo na premiju "Oskar" v chetyrekh kategorijakh.

Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). Lewis was greatly assisted in its preparation by science writer Paul de Kruif, who received 25% of the royalties on sales, although Lewis was listed as the sole author. Arrowsmith is an early major novel dealing with the culture of science. It was written in the period after the reforms of medical education flowing from the Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, which had called on medical schools in the United States to adhere to mainstream science in their teaching and research. (wikipedia.org)

The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920s and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania town to New York. Forced to work due to family illness, Una shows a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate and, while valued by her company, she struggles to achieve the same status of her male coworkers.On a parallel track, her quest for traditional romance and love is important but her unique role as a working woman, doing a man's job, makes it tough to find an appropriate suitor.Una is on track to marry Walter Babson, who appears to be a good man but lacks the excitement of her eventual husband, Edward Schwirtz. He is a salesman with all the charm necessary to win her heart, but the marriage is doomed from the start. Una eventually determines to divorce him, which is also scandalous for the time. As the book closes, Una emerges triumphant in both her career and her personal life.The novel was published before Lewis achieved any significant fame and provides insights on working women as well as the unique nature (for the time) of having a woman as the lead character. (wikipedia.org)

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It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. The novel was published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, which was reported on by Dorothy Thompson, Lewis' wife. The novel describes the rise of Berzelius Buzz Windrip, a demagogue who is elected President of the United States, after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and traditional values. After his election, Windrip takes complete control of the government and imposes totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force, in the manner of European fascists such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The novel's plot centers on journalist Doremus Jessup's opposition to the new regime and his subsequent struggle against it as part of a liberal rebellion. It Can't Happen Here remains uniquely important, a shockingly prescient novel that's as fresh and contemporary as today's news.

Samuel Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer, who builds his fortunes in fictional Zenith, Winnemac. In addition to his success in the business world, he had also succeeded as a young man in winning the hand of Frances 'Fran' Voelker, a beautiful young socialite. While the novel provides the courtship as a backstory, the real story begins upon his retirement. Retiring at the age of fifty as a result of his selling of his successful automobile company (The Revelation Motor Company) to a far larger competitor, he sets out to do what he had always wanted to experience: a leisurely trip to Europe with his wife, with aspirations to visit some manufacturing plants looking for his next challenge.

Sinclair Lewis published his book Ann Vickers in 1933. The story follows Ann Vickers, the protagonist, from her school days as a tomboy in the American Midwest in the late nineteenth century, through college, and into her forties. It details her early 20th-century postgraduate suffragist period. She is incarcerated because she is a suffragist, and her experiences there inspire her interest in social work and jail reform. She had her first sexual encounter while working as a social worker in a settlement home during the First World War, gets pregnant, and then has an abortion. She marries a dull man years later after becoming successful in operating a cutting-edge jail for women, more out of loneliness than love.She falls in love with a controversial judge while stuck in a somewhat loveless marriage. She has a son by the judge, defying both middle-class tradition and that of her liberal social circle in New York.

Arrowsmith tells the story of bright and scientifically minded Martin Arrowsmith of Elk Mills, Winnemac, as he makes his way from a small town in the Midwest to the upper echelons of the scientific community at a prestigious foundation in New York City. Along the way he begins medical school. He becomes engaged to one woman, cheats on her with another woman, becomes engaged to the second woman and then finally invites both women to a lunch to settle the issue. Frustrated with the work, he moves on to a job as a public health official in Iowa, then becomes romantically involved with the young daughter of its local director. The book's climax deals with Arrowsmith's discovery of a phage that destroys bacteria and his experiences as he faces an outbreak of bubonic plague on a fictional Caribbean island. His scientific principles demand that he avoid its mass use on the Island until thoroughly tested, Even at the expense of lives that might be saved. Only after his wife, Leora, and all the other people who came with him from the institute to the island die of plague, does he reluctantly abandon rigorous science and begins to treat everyone on the island with the phage. While there he becomes romantically involved with a wealthy socialite, whom he later marries. In spite of his life- saving, he regards his actions on the island as a complete betrayal of science and his principles. Upon his return to New York he is heralded as a public hero for his actions on the island. The book was popular and awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1926 which was refused by Sinclair Lewis. He was later to win the Nobel Prize for Literature-which he accepted.

A trenchant satire on consumeristic society Babbitt is the crowning achievement of Sinclair Lewis, winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature. This edition contains notes and extra material.