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Lewis Sinclair:     more books (97)

Babbit by Sinclair Lewis, 2008-10-21 The Works of Sinclair Lewis by Sinclair Lewis, 2009-08-06 Our Mr. Wrenn; the romantic adventures of a gentle man by Sinclair Lewis, 2010-09-07 It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, 2005-10-04 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, 2010-05-03 Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sinclair Lewis, 2003-09-22 Free air by Sinclair Lewis, 2010-09-04 Dodsworth (Signet classics) by Sinclair Lewis, 1967-02-01 Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) by Sinclair Lewis, 2003-08-01 Kingsblood Royal (Modern Library Classics) by Sinclair Lewis, 2001-04-10 Elmer Gantry (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis, 2007-12-04 Babbitt (Literary Classics) by Sinclair Lewis, 2002-11 Sinclair Lewis (Modern Literature Monographs) by James Lundquist, 1972-12 Babbitt (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis, 2007-08-07

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1. Sinclair Lewis - Autobiography
   Written for acceptance of nobel Prize in Literature 1930.  
   http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1930/lewis-autobio.html
   
   Extractions: I was born in a prairie village in that most Scandinavian part of America, Minnesota, the son of a country doctor, in 1885. Until I went East to Yale University I attended the ordinary public school, along with many Madsens, Olesons, Nelsons, Hedins, Larsons. Doubtless it was because of this that I made the hero of my second book, The Trail of the Hawk , a Norwegian, and Gustaf Sondelius, of Arrowsmith , a Swede - and to me, Dr. Sondelius is the favorite among all my characters. My university days at Yale were undistinguished save for contributions to the Yale Literary Magazine. It may be interesting to say that these contributions were most of them reeking with a banal romanticism; that an author who was later to try to present ordinary pavements trod by real boots should through university days have written nearly always of Guinevere and Lancelot - of weary bitterns among sad Irish reeds - of story-book castles with troubadours vastly indulging in wine, a commodity of which the author was singularly ignorant. What the moral is, I do not know. Whether imaginary castles at nineteen lead always to the sidewalks of Main Street at thirty-five, and whether the process might be reversed, and whether either of them is desirable, I leave to psychologists.

2. Literature 1930
   sinclair lewis. USA. b.1885 d.1951. The nobel Prize in Literature 1930 PresentationSpeech sinclair lewis Autobiography nobel Lecture Other Resources. 1929, 1931.  
   http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1930/

3. Sinclair Lewis - Nobel Lecture
   sinclair lewis' nobel Lecture, December 12, 1930.  
   http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1930/lewis-lecture.html
   
   Extractions: Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1930 I wish, in this address, to consider certain trends, certain dangers, and certain high and exciting promises in present-day American literature. To discuss this with complete and unguarded frankness - and I should not insult you by being otherwise than completely honest, however indiscreet - it will be necessary for me to be a little impolite regarding certain institutions and persons of my own greatly beloved land. But I beg of you to believe that I am in no case gratifying a grudge. Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced - there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry I can illustrate by an incident which chances to concern the Swedish Academy and myself and which happened a few days ago, just before I took the ship at New York for Sweden. There is in America a learned and most amiable old gentleman who has been a pastor, a university professor, and a diplomat. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and no few universities have honored him with degrees. As a writer he is chiefly known for his pleasant little essays on the joy of fishing. I do not Suppose that professional fishermen, whose lives depend on the run of cod or herring, find it altogether an amusing occupation, but from these essays I learned, as a boy, that there is something very important and spiritual about catching fish, if you have no need of doing so.

4. Sinclair Lewis Winner Of The 1930 Nobel Prize In Literature
   sinclair lewis, a nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the nobelPrize Internet Archive. sinclair lewis. 1930 nobel Laureate in  
   http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1930a.html

5. Index Of Nobel Laureates In Literature
   ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF nobel PRIZE LAUREATES IN LITERATURE. Name, Year Awarded.Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1966. Laxness, Halldor Kiljan, 1955. lewis, sinclair, 1930.  
   http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/alpha.html

6. Lewis, Sinclair
   The Granger Collection. Video in full HARRY sinclair lewis (b. Feb. He wonthe nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to an American.  
   http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/347_19.html
   
   Extractions: Sinclair Lewis The Granger Collection [Video] in full HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS (b. Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, Minn., U.S.d. Jan. 10, 1951, near Rome, Italy), American novelist and social critic who punctured American complacency with his broadly drawn, widely popular satirical novels. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to an American. Lewis graduated from Yale University (1907) and was for a time a reporter and also worked as an editor for several publishers. His first novel, Our Mr. Wrenn (1914), attracted favourable criticism but few readers. At the same time he was writing with ever-increasing success for such popular magazines as The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan, but he never lost sight of his ambition to become a serious novelist. He undertook the writing of Main Street as a major effort, assuming that it would not bring him the ready rewards of magazine fiction. Yet its publication in 1920 made his literary reputation. Main Street is seen through the eyes of Carol Kennicott, an Eastern girl married to a Middle Western doctor who settles in Gopher Prairie, Minn. (modeled on Lewis' hometown of Sauk

7. Nobel Prize Winners For Literature
   1929, Mann, Thomas, Germany, novelist. 1930, lewis, sinclair, US, novelist. 1931,Karlfeldt, Erik Axel (posthumous award), Sweden, poet. 1932, Galsworthy, John, UK,novelist.  
   http://www.britannica.com/nobel/table/lit.html
   
   Extractions: Year Article Country* Literary Area Sully Prudhomme France poet Mommsen, Theodor Germany historian Norway novelist, poet, dramatist Spain dramatist France poet Sienkiewicz, Henryk Poland novelist Italy poet Kipling, Rudyard U.K. poet, novelist Eucken, Rudolf Christoph Germany philosopher Sweden novelist Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig von Germany poet, novelist, dramatist Maeterlinck, Maurice Belgium dramatist Hauptmann, Gerhart Germany dramatist Tagore, Rabindranath India poet Rolland, Romain France novelist Heidenstam, Verner von Sweden poet Gjellerup, Karl Denmark novelist Pontoppidan, Henrik Denmark novelist Karlfeldt, Erik Axel (declined) Sweden poet Spitteler, Carl Switzerland poet, novelist Hamsun, Knut Norway novelist France, Anatole France novelist Spain dramatist Yeats, William Butler Ireland poet Reymont, Wladyslaw Stanislaw Poland novelist Shaw, George Bernard Ireland dramatist Deledda, Grazia Italy novelist Bergson, Henri France philosopher Undset, Sigrid Norway novelist Mann, Thomas Germany novelist Lewis, Sinclair U.S. novelist Karlfeldt, Erik Axel

8. Bigchalk: HomeworkCentral: Lewis, Sinclair (1930) (F-L)
   FL lewis, sinclair (1930). World Book Online Article on lewis,sinclair; The American Fear of Literature nobel Prize Lecture;  
   http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/Homework/High_School/Reg

9. Bigchalk: HomeworkCentral: Lewis, Sinclair (E-L)
   lewis, sinclair. World Book Online Article on lewis, sinclair; TheAmerican Fear of Literature nobel Prize Lecture; Babbitt; Brief  
   http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/Homework/High_School/Lit

10. International: Italiano: Arte: Letteratura: Premi_Letterari: Nobel - Open Site
    Top International Italiano Arte Letteratura Premi Letterari nobel (0) Laxness,Halldór Kiljan (0). lewis, sinclair (0); Maeterlinck, Maurice (0); Mahfouz  
    http://open-site.org/International/Italiano/Arte/Letteratura/Premi_Letterari/Nob

11. TimePieces:Sinclair Lewis Wins Nobel Preview
    1930 sinclair lewis Wins nobel. Photo of sinclair lewis. Sauk Centre'ssinclair lewis, who satirizes smalltown complacency and back  
    http://events.mnhs.org/TimePieces/Preview.cfm?EventID=197

12. TimePieces: Sinclair Lewis Wins Nobel
    TIMELINE sinclair lewis WINS nobel, Search for an event, TimePieces project information.1930 sinclair lewis Wins nobel. TIMELINE sinclair lewis WINS nobel.  
    http://events.mnhs.org/TimePieces/EventDetail.cfm?EventID=197

13. Lewis, Sinclair
    The nobel Prize in Literature 1930 Find an short autobiographical piece,sinclair lewis's nobel Lecture, along with other resources.  
    http://classiclit.about.com/cs/lewissinclair/

14. Book Review: Sinclair Lewis - Arrowsmith - Elmer Gantry - Dodsworth
    sinclair lewis was the first American to receive the nobel Prize inLiterature. Read this collection, which contains Arrowsmith  
    http://classiclit.about.com/library/weekly/aafpr092802a.htm
    
    Extractions: Sinclair Lewis had the distinction of being the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1930. That distinction has since been shared by Toni Morrison (1993), Saul Bellow (1976), John Steinbeck (1962), Ernest Hemingway (1954), and other American writers. In all, Sinclair Lewis wrote 22 novels, of which "Arrowsmith," "Elmer Gantry," and "Dodsworth" are among his most famous. Through his novels and other works, Lewis offers a critique of American culture and politics, with its multitude of contradictions. In his Nobel Lecture, he called America "the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today." And, it was out of such a land as this that he was able to spin so many novels. Arrowsmith Published in 1925, "Arrowsmith" is a novel about a young scientist and medical student, Martin Arrowsmith. It's also the novel that won Lewis the Pulitzer Prize, which he refused to accept.

15. UM PRÉMIO NOBEL DA LITERATURA: SINCLAIR LEWIS
    Translate this page UM PRÉMIO nobel DA LITERATURA sinclair lewis. ANA MARIA MARQUESDA COSTA *. Numa altura em que nos alegramos com a atribuição  
    http://www.ipv.pt/millenium/15_ect1.htm
    
    Extractions: ANA MARIA MARQUES DA COSTA * Sinclair Lewis, de seu nome Harry, nasceu a 7 de Fevereiro de 1885 em Sauk Center, Minnesota. Em 1926 9, o autor publica Mantrap (considerada uma das piores obras de Lewis, e em 1927, um novo "best-seller", intitulado Elmer Gantry. "(...) Some day I might fall in love with you. A tiny bit. If you don't rush me too much. But only physically. No one can touch my soul!"10 "It is the Hour! Blessed Virgin, Mother Hera, Mother Frigga, Mother Ishtar, Mother Isis, dread Mother Astarte of the weaving arms, it is thy priestess, it is she who after the blind centuries and the groping years shall make it known to the world that ye are one, and that in me are ye all revealed, and that in this revelation shall come peace and wisdom universal, the secret of the spheres and the pit of understanding. Ye who have leaned over me and on my lips pressed your immortal fingers, take this my brother to your bosoms, open his eyes, release his pinioned spirit, make him as the gods, that with me he may carry the revelation for which a thousand grievous years the world has panted".12 "(...) And I - you think of me as sitting in drawing-rooms, but here you've seen me reveling in sea water and running on the beach. And often and often when you think I'm napping in my room, I sneak out to that little bit of walled-off garden just above the house and lie there in the hot sun, in the wind, smelling of the reeking earth, finding life! That's the strengh of Europe - not its so-called 'culture', its galleries and neat voices and knowledge of languages, but its nearness to earth. And that's the weakness of America - not its noisiness and its cruelty and its cinema vulgarity but the way in which it erects steel-glass skyscrapers and miraculous, cement-and-glass factories and tiled kichens and wireless antennae and popular magazines to insulate it from the good vulgarity of earth!"16

16. Sinclair Lewis
    még a nobeldíj megalapítása elott eltávoztak az élok sorából, már aXX. században is akadt jó néhány, aki sinclair lewis fellépése elott  
    http://www.hmg.hu/irok/xxszazad/amidrama/lewis.htm
    
    Extractions: Sinclair Lewis 1930-ban történt, hogy az irodalmi Nobel-díjat nem amerikai író kapta meg. Nem mintha korábban nem lettek volna olyan jelentékeny amerikai írók, költõk, akik Európa-szerte olvasók millióit hódították meg. Nem beszélve a korábbiakról, akik még a Nobel-díj megalapítása elõtt eltávoztak az élõk sorából, már a XX. században is akadt jó néhány, aki Sinclair Lewis fellépése elõtt indokolt világhírre emelkedett. Jack London, Upton Sinclaire, Theodor Dreiser már Lewis irodalmi megjelenése elõtt világhírû volt, és esztétikai mércével mérve egyikük sem kisebb rendû-rangú, mint az az írómûvész, aki az amerikaiak közül elsõként kapta meg az annyira rangos Nobel-díjat. Csakhogy a minden irodalmi újítástól tartózkodó, a hagyományos prózai elbeszélõ formákat példás pontossággal és gondossággal betartó, mesterien szokványos és már régóta Európában is sikeres szerzõ látványosan szakított a megszokott amerikai önelégültséggel, amely a nem tagadott hibák ellenére mégis Amerikát - illetve az Egyesült Államokat - és lakóit tekintette a tökéletesség megtestesülésének. Sinclair Lewis indulásától kezdve a bírálnivalókat látta és láttatta az amerikai átlagemberben és életformában. Európát pedig a kultúra tekintetében magasabbrendûnek értékelte. Alighanem ez az egyértelmû Európa-tisztelet nyerte el azt az európai megbecsülést, hogy a vele legalábbis egyenrangúak közül éppen õ lett a Nobel-díjas. Persze valóban kitûnõ író volt és az is maradt, olyan kiválóság, akit egyaránt megbecsült az irodalmi ínyenc és a szokványos ízlésû átlagolvasó. Lewis úgy érdekes, hogy nincs benne és életmûvében semmi szenzációs. Színesen mutatja be a felettébb színtelen egyéniségeket és életsorsokat. Úgy rajzol élethûen ellenszenves tulajdonságokat hordozó alakokat, hogy nem is haragszik rájuk: megbírálja, de meg is érti õket. Az amerikai olvasó leteszi a könyvet, és valami ilyesmit gondol: „Hát bizony ilyenek vagyunk". Az európai ember pedig csöndesen mosolyog és bólint: „Igen, ilyenek lehetnek az amerikaiak. Ezzel ugyan nem érdemes felvágni" - de igazán senki se haragszik Babbit úrra, a nyárspolgáriság, fontoskodás, sznobság típuspéldájára, arra a viszonylag gazdag üzletemberre, aki vagyona ellenére is reménytelenül kispolgár. Unalmasabb alakot, unalmasabb történetet még senki se rajzolt meg olyan érdekesen, olykor még mulatságosan is, mint Lewis

17. Sinclair Lewis
    sinclair lewis won the nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first givento American. His total output includes 22 novels and three plays.  
    http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/slewis.htm
    
    Extractions: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback (Harry) Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) American novelist, playwright, and social critic who gained popularity with satirical novels. Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to American. His total output includes 22 novels and three plays. Though Lewis criticized at times the American way of living, his basic view of the "American human comedy" was optimistic. "His central characters are the pioneer, the doctor, the scientist, the businessman, and the feminist. The appeal of his best fiction lies in the opposition between his idealistic protagonists and an array of fools, charlatans, and scoundrels - evangelists, editorialists, pseudo-artists, cultists, and boosters." (from The Quixotic Vision of Sinclair Lewis by Martin Light, 1975) In 1902 Lewis entered the Oberlin Academy, but then moved to Yale University and started to contribute the Yale Literary Magazine . On one summer vacation Lewis traveled to England on a cattle boat and in another year, dissatisfied with college, he went to Panama in search of a job on the canal. He also worked as a janitor at

18. PAL: Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
    Why sinclair lewis got the nobel prize; address by Erik Axel Karlfeldt, permanentsecretary of the Swedish Academy, at the nobel festival December 10, 1930  
    http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/lewis.html
    
    Extractions: PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide Paul P. Reuben Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) The Sinclair Lewis Homepage The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 Primary Works Selected Bibliography: Books ... Home Page Sinclair Lewis has the distinction of being the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1930) " . . . for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters . . ." One of the muckrakers, Lewis's Main Street is a devastating indictment of American provincialism; in other works he satirizes businessmen ( Babbit ), the medical profession ( Arrowsmith ), and evangelical religion ( Elmer Gantry Top Primary Works Our Mr. Wrenn, the romantic adventures of a gentle man The Trail of the Hawk The Job The Innocents Free air Main Street Babbitt Arrowsmith Mantrap Elmer Gantry The Man Who Knew Coolidge Dodsworth, a novel Ann Vickers Work of art It can't happen here, a novel The prodigal parents, a novel Bethel Merriday Gideon Planish Cass Timberlane, a novel of husbands and wives

19. Lewissites
    details about sinclair Leiwis winning the 1930 nobel Prize in Literature. Also, thispage provides a good source for other links on sinclair lewis and his works  
    http://lilt.ilstu.edu/separry/LewisSites.htm
    
    Extractions: Sinclair Lewis, Winner of the 1930 Noble Prize in Literature http://www.almaz.com/nobel/literature/1930a.html This page provides minor details about Sinclair Leiwis winning the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature. Also, this page provides a good source for other links on Sinclair Lewis and his works. Two of the better ones are:

20. Sinclair Lewis: Bibliography
    —. sinclair lewis and the nobel Prize. MidAmerica 8 (1981) 921. sinclairlewis and the nobel Prize. Western Humanities Review 13 (1959) 163-71.  
    http://lilt.ilstu.edu/separry/lewis_bib.html

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