Dodsworth - Softcover

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Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, playwright, and social critic whose fiction made him one of the sharpest satirists of twentieth-century American life. Born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, in 1885, Lewis became known for exposing the hypocrisies, anxieties, ambitions, and conformist pressures of middle-class America. His major novels include Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth, and It Can't Happen Here.Lewis was the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1930. His fiction is marked by restless energy, social observation, comic attack, and a willingness to puncture American myths about business, religion, small-town virtue, success, and respectability. In Babbitt, he created one of his most enduring figures: a man so perfectly adapted to his culture that his own discontent becomes an indictment of that culture. Lewis remains essential reading for anyone interested in American satire, literary realism, the 1920s, business culture, and the uneasy promises of the American dream.