LEWIS, Sinclair.
Main Street.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe , 1920.
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Carol Milford is a young, liberated woman from Saint Paul, Minnesota, who marries a small-town doctor named Will Kennicott. Persuaded to move to Gopher Prairie, her husband’s home-town, Carol is horrified to find herself living in an ugly, back-water community. A satiric depiction of Carol’s attempt to raise the inhabitants of Gopher Prairie to her own smug level, Main Street is one of Sinclair Lewis’s most significant works.
Main Street.
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