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Leaving Death Row 13 reviews
Reginald Sinclair Lewis
1st Books Library, 2000
This book opened my eyes
I enjoyed this book immensely. The author has a way of bringing out the truth and touching the heart and soul. His language is powerful and direct. Reginald Lewis truly loves his craft. I'm very pleased to have been introduced to this author and his writing style.
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Buffalo Gordon on The Plains (Buffalo Gordon) 2 reviews
J. P. Sinclair Lewis
Forge Books, 2003
Buffalo Gordon On The Plains
Bravo! I did not want this book to end! I laughed out loud and at times was so deeply moved, I cried. While I loved the romance between Nate and Cara, I found the descriptive encounters between Nate and the Plains Indians especially interesting and rousing - I felt as though I was sitting among them in the tipi. Rich in historical detail, this story is engaging and thought provoking. The author ...
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French Unabridged Dictionary8 reviews
Beryl T. Atkins, Alain Duval, ...
Harper Resource, 1998
The Ultimate French Dictionary
I wholeheartedly agree with those who say that this particular dictionary is THE French dictionary for students of French (and French enthusiasts). Not only is the vocabulary comprehensive, but the usage notes are invaluable; symbols indicate British versus American usage, the "slang quotient" of a word, and archaic and colloquial words, among others. The entries are full of examples that make ...
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God-Seeker1 review
Sinclair Lewis
Manor Books, 1975
Jesus as a "beautiful young God" of the Sioux"
THE GOD-SEEKER (1949) is, in my opinion, the most under-rated of Sinclair Lewis's many novels. Contemporary critics treated this late work as if they were waiting for an aging Babe Ruth to break his own home run record once again in his final year at bat. Perhaps THE GOD-SEEKER lacks the wall-clearing oomph of ELMER GANTRY, but it is a solid inside the park home run by a master student of ...
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Elmer Gantry (Avon Books #1)32 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
Avon Books, 1939
a profile of the USA, not the clergy
I never expected to be moved so much by this book, to feel so strongly about it. Published in 1927, I expected something dated, both in prose and story -- it wasn't at all. This novel isn't just as it's usually described: adventures of a golden-tongued evangelist who lives a live of hypocrisy and self-indulgence. This also isn't a novel whose primary purpose is to attack the clergy. This is a ...
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Cass Timberlane (Armed Services edition)3 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
Editions for the Armed Services, 1946
Circa 1945 Review by Henry Seidel Canby
From Book-of-the-Month Club News upon First Edition publication: "This book responds to the test by which one of the wisest of professional readers applies to all his manuscripts, it most humanly bleeds. It is Sinclair Lewis' nineteenth novel (some of which have bled very little), and it is one of his best. Also, in spite of being his nineteenth, it is technically advanced, and fresh in its ...
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Babbit 57 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
Signet, 1961
Everyone Should Own a Babbitt
Meet George F. Babbitt, age 46. Babbitt is a conformist. Babbitt is an image driven, merchandising, dyed-in-the-wool Presbyterian businessman. Babbitt is bleached white by a 1920's suburban midwest society and is in hot pursuit of the almighty dollar and happiness. He loves his midwest American wife and his 2.2 children. He loves his midwest American cars and good cigars. Babbitt loves ...
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Where I'm Writing From: Essays from Pennsylvania's Death Row1 review
Reginald Sinclair Lewis
PublishAmerica, 2005
Humanity Behind Bars
Reading Reginald Sinclair Lewis's recently published collection of essays entitled "Where I'm Writing From" reminds us of the undeniable humanity of every person incarcerated on death row in the United States. Held on Pennsylvania's death row since 1983 for a murder he has always denied having committed, Lewis is an award-winning African-American writer. He has won three P.E.N. American Center ...
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Free Air4 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
Bison Books, 1993
Why couldn't all his books have been like this?
Apparently Lewis didn't become disillusioned and embittered until after 1919, when this absolutely delightful book was published. We have an original copy that my mom got from a library sale or something. She loved it, I loved it, which is no suprise because I am a sucker for sweet old novels, but the most ringing endorsement it that my impossible-to-please dad loved it. In fact, he was the ...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls261 reviews
Ernest Hemingway
Limited Editions Club, 1942
Deserves to Be Called a Classic
Robert Jordan is a young American fighting against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War. He is sent into the mountains to make contact with a small band of guerillas to blow a bridge in support of an offensive.
Hemingway's tremendous strength of drawing characters that the reader comes to know and care about is on full display in "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Jordan falls in love with the ...
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Main Street51 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1996
A Satirical Masterpiece and One Hec of a Read!
"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was." Thomas Carlyle
Like in his other classic works (i.e. "Elmer Gantry", "Babbitt", etc...) Sinclair Lewis seems to relish the role of ripping apart the hypocritical world of mid-America in early 20th century society. This story takes place near the time it was written (circa 1920), and features the trials and tribulations of our main ...
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Work of art2 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
Doubleday, Doran & company, inc, 1934
A GRAND HOTEL NOVEL FOR "BOY SCOUTS AND ROTARIANS"
Sinclair Lewis may have written more about "service" and the art of being useful to others than any other American novelist. Sometimes he praises altruistic service. More often he skewers hypocritical politeness and feigned kindness as mere marketing ploys to sell inferior products. His 1934 novel about hotels and hotel management, WORK OF ART, is especially heavy on attention to service.
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Hike and the Aeroplane2 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
Yale, 1999
A Fantastic Journey Back to the Future
This book was such a surprise! I love Sinclair Lewis but I never expected such a great young reader's book from him. It's a terrific view of what he thought the future might be: lots of hope in technology and the ultimate triumph of good over evil. I don't know what the original book looked like, but this one is BEAUTIFUL!!!!
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Kingsblood Royal10 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
RANDOM HOUSE, 1947
Truth in black and white
What if you discovered you were part black? Only 1/32nd, not enough to darken your skin, but beyond the pale in 1947. When Neil Kingsblood uncovers his heritage, he also discovers his conscience, finding it difficult, finally impossible to not express his outrage at the racial status quo. It is important to note that Kingsblood has so internalized the beliefs of his community about racial ...
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The Job3 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007
Decent account of Women in the workplace.
Sinclair's first critically successful work has similar soundings to Main Street and Ann Vickers. The novel describes the adventures of Una Golden as she learns to survive the daily grind of working for a living in dead end jobs. Lewis vividly describes the dullness and hopelessness surrounding typical "women's work" in the early 1900's. Lewis also shows that marrying can also be a dead ...
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Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Library of America)3 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
Library of America, 1992
Relevant to today's Society
I read "Main Street" several years ago. It impressed me then and the memory of it has stayed with me. I had previously read "Babitt" and "Arrowsmith" which were both good novels but neither compared to "Main Street". Both previous novels poked fun at small town middle America. As a resident of North Dakota, I got a good chuckle over Lewis's portrayal of Arrowsmith's brief trip to our fair ...
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It Can't Happen Here41 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
Signet Classics, 1993
Be Militant for at least Once
Lee Roscoe has recently (© 2005) adapted Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here to the stage. This play is a militant agitprop work and is available to people who want to produce it for an audience in a militant perspective to fight against the present erring developments of Bush's presidency and to advocate the necessity to impeach him and his vice-president as the last defense against ...
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Angel Pavement2 reviews
J. B Priestley
The Press of the Readers Club, 1942
Angelic prose.
Priestley was a major figure in the cultural life of twentieth-century Britain, as novelist, playwright, essayist, broadcaster and all-round man of ideas. His reputation seems to have dimmed somewhat in recent years and I am not sure that he is known very much at all outside the UK. This is a pity, because he was a writer of immense talent. Priestley's play An Inspector Calls is still revived ...
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Ann Vickers4 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
When America writes books, she sounds like Sinclair Lewis
You are Ann Vickers "of Waubanakee, Illinois, a little south of the center of the state" ( Ch 1, p. 7). You are 17 years old. Your mother died when you were ten. You are an only child. Your father was local school superintendent. But he died a year ago leaving you a legacy of $1,000. What do you do next?
You draw on your father's and Waubanakee's values and walk with open eyes into the ...
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Arrowsmith37 reviews
Sinclair Lewis
Signet, 1961
At last: Sinclair Lewis writes a hero
Sinclair Lewis is the bookend to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Both were born in Minnesota. Fitzgerald went to Princeton, Lewis to Yale. Both wrote their best books in the 1920s. Both drank, had women trouble, and turned bitter.
But Fitzgerald is everyone's favorite author --- even the high school kids who are clueless about metaphors swoon over "The Great Gatsby." You need an appreciation of satire to ...
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