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Main Street -- Sinclair Lewis
Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
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Main Street -- Sinclair Lewis
To
James Branch Cabell
and
Joseph Hergesheimer
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Main Street -- Sinclair Lewis
This is America--a town of a few thousand,in a region of wheat and
corn and dairies and little groves.
The town is,in our tale,called "Gopher Prairie,Minnesota." But its
Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story
would be the same in Ohio or Montana,in Kansas or Kentucky or
Illinois,and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in
the Carolina hills.
Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might
stand in front of the Bon Ton Store,Hannibal invaded Rome and
Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says
to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London,Prague,and
the unprofitable isles of the sea;whatsoever Ezra does not know and
sanction,that thing is heresy,worthless for knowing and wicked to
consider.
Our railway station is the final aspiration of architecture. Sam Clark's
annual hardware turnover is the envy of the four counties which
constitute God's Country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebud Movie
Palace there is a Message,and humor strictly moral.
Such is our comfortable tradition and sure faith. Would he not betray
himself an alien cynic who should otherwise portray Main Street,or
distress the citizens by speculating whether there may not be other
faiths?
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Main Street -- Sinclair Lewis
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I...................................................................................................7
CHAPTER II................................................................................................20
CHAPTER III..............................................................................................29
CHAPTER IV..............................................................................................43
CHAPTER V...............................................................................................72
CHAPTER VI..............................................................................................89
CHAPTER VII...........................................................................................105
CHAPTER VIII.........................................................................................120
CHAPTER IX............................................................................................128
CHAPTER X..............................................................................................140
CHAPTER XI............................................................................................158
CHAPTER XII...........................................................................................184
CHAPTER XIII..........................................................................................195
CHAPTER XIV.........................................................................................204
CHAPTER XV...........................................................................................223
CHAPTER XVI.........................................................................................247
CHAPTER XVII........................................................................................259
CHAPTER XVIII.......................................................................................274
CHAPTER XIX..........................................................................................290
CHAPTER XX...........................................................................................303
CHAPTER XXI..........................................................................................315
CHAPTER XXII........................................................................................329
CHAPTER XXIII.......................................................................................343
CHAPTER XXIV.......................................................................................359
CHAPTER XXV........................................................................................382
CHAPTER XXVI.......................................................................................394
CHAPTER XXVII.....................................................................................403
CHAPTER XXVIII....................................................................................407
CHAPTER XXIX.......................................................................................425
CHAPTER XXX........................................................................................443
CHAPTER XXXI.......................................................................................459
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