description: The first of his major novels of the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis's Main Street satirizes the manners of the American Midwest. Here is the story of Carol Kennicott, who, to be accepted, must adapt to the ways of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. This ground-breaking novel attacks conformism, commercialism, moneygrubbing, and the decline in what Lewis saw as the American ideals of freedom and respect for individuality.
language: English
title: Main Street
titlecomplete: Main Street (Literary Classics)
characters: Will Kennicott, Carol Milford
genres: Fiction, American, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 25586
places: Minnesota
publisher: Prometheus