Sinclair Lewis

Describes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact that she lives in a small, self-satisfied, Midwestern town.

A cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States first published in 1935. During the presidential election of 1936, Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, observes with dismay that many of the people he knows support the candidacy of a fascist, Berzelius Windrip. When Windrip wins the election, he forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court, and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States...

The author's three great novels--Arrowsmith, Dodsworth, and Elmer Gantry, the saga of a hypocritical preacher in pursuit of power and worldly pleasure--are collected for the first time.

One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920s Midwestern Corn Belt.

Main street: A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there--Novelist. Babbitt: The life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor is described reflecting an image of middle-class America--Novelist. Arrowsmith: A man of science must overcome public ignorance and the petty greed of associates as he seeks knowledge--Novelist.

Happily married country doctor Martin Arrowsmith leaves his small practice for the prospects of wealth and important medical research at New York City's esteemed McGurk Institute and finds himself faced with an intense workload, a romance-minded socialite, and a plague outbreak.