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Arrowsmith
by Lewis, Sinclair
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Orig. publisher's beige nubby cloth and slate blue boards. Teg. Fine in worn slipcase
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's beige nubby cloth and slate blue boards. Teg. Fine in worn slipcase. 448 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 380 of 500 signed by Lewis: becoming the first American awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. H.L. Mencken called him "a red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." This title discusses the travail faced of an idealistic physician. His literary reputation waned at the end of his career and was renewed in the early twentieth century -- primarily for his dystopian satire, "It Can't Happen Here," an appropriate parallel to the rise of Donald Trump. Crisp copy, small nicks to left side of spine paper label.
Synopsis
Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and graduated from Yale University in 1908. His college career was interrupted by various part-time occupations, including a period working at the Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair’s socialist experiment in New Jersey. He worked for some years as a free lance editor and journalist, during which time he published several minor novels. But with the publication of Main Street (1920), which sold half a million copies, he achieved wide recognition. This was followed by the two novels considered by many to be his finest, Babbitt (1922) and Arrowsmith (1925), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, but declined by Lewis. In 1930, following Elmer Gantry (1927) and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for distinction in world literature. This was the apogee of his literary career, and in the period from Ann Vickers (1933) to the posthumously published World So Wide (1951) Lewis wrote ten novels that reveal the progressive decline of his creative powers. From Main Street to Stockholm , a collection of his letters, was published in 1952, and The Man from Main Street , a collection of essays, in 1953. During his last years Sinclair Lewis wandered extensively in Europe, and after his death in Rome in 1951 his ashes were returned to his birthplace.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23041
- Title
- Arrowsmith
- Author
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. publisher's beige nubby cloth and slate blue boards. Teg. Fine in worn slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace And Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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