Arrowsmith
by Lewis, SInclair
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Seventh Printing of the first edition, August 1925. Condition: Good / No dustjacket. Blue cloth with orange type and reverse block. Moderate wear, spine lean, some soiling on page block. Interior is clean and unmarked. Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this novel, but he declined the award. Basis for the 1931 film directed by John Ford and starring Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, and Myrna Loy. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Linden Avenue Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10074
- Title
- Arrowsmith
- Author
- Lewis, SInclair
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Seventh Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Pages
- 448
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, Books into Film
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Books into Film; Literature;
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