Main Street

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Main Street is a 1920 satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis that critiques small-town American life and conformity through the experiences of its idealistic protagonist.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
satirical novel
adaptation Main Street (1923 film) NERFINISHED
Main Street (1936 film) NERFINISHED
author Sinclair Lewis NERFINISHED
award Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (initially recommended) NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstEditionFormat print
followedBy Babbitt NERFINISHED
genre realist novel
satire
social novel
hasCharacter Guy Pollock NERFINISHED
Miles Bjornstam NERFINISHED
Raymie Wutherspoon NERFINISHED
Vida Sherwin NERFINISHED
hasInfluenceOn later American social novels
hasSubject middle class in the United States
small towns in literature
social criticism in literature
influenced Babbitt NERFINISHED
ISBN various editions; public domain in some jurisdictions
language English
libraryOfCongressClassification PS3523.E94 M3
literaryMovement American realism NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Dr. Will Kennicott NERFINISHED
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor controversial depiction of provincialism
detailed portrayal of Midwestern small-town life
OCLC 1646081
pageCount approximately 400 pages
partOf American literature canon NERFINISHED
placeInAuthorCareer breakthrough novel of Sinclair Lewis
precededBy The Trail of the Hawk NERFINISHED
protagonist Carol Kennicott NERFINISHED
Carol Milford NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1920
publisher Harcourt, Brace and Howe NERFINISHED
relatedEvent Pulitzer Prize for Fiction controversy NERFINISHED
setting Gopher Prairie NERFINISHED
Minnesota NERFINISHED
theme conformity
critique of small-town American life
gender roles
individualism vs. community pressure
social change
timePeriodOfSetting early 20th century

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Sinclair Lewis notableWork Main Street
Jazz Age literature hasNotableWork Main Street