(Harry) Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
Biographical note
American novelist and playwright, and the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The award reflected his ground-breaking work in the 1920s on books such as Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. He was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 'Arrowsmith', but declined it because he believed that the Pulitzer was meant for books that celebrated American wholesomeness and his novels, which were quite critical, should not be awarded the prize.
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Works
- Hike and the Aeroplane (1912, as Tom Graham)
- Our Mr. Wrenn (1914) [ read | download ]
- The Trail of the Hawk (1916)
- The Job (1917)
- The Innocents (1917)
- Free Air (1919)
- Main Street (1920) [ read | download ]
- Babbit (1922) [ read | download ]
The following works, first published after 1923, are still copyright in the USA and may be copyright in other countries outside of Australia. Accordingly, these works are restricted to members of the University of Adelaide.
- Arrowsmith (1925) [ read | download ]
- Mantrap (1926)
- Elmer Gantry (1927) [ read | download ]
- The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928)
- Dodsworth (1929) [ read | download ]
- Ann Vickers (1933)
- Work of Art (1934)
- It Can't Happen Here (1935) [ read | download ]
- Selected Short Stories (1935)
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Contents: Let�s Play King — The Willow Walk — The Cat of the Stars — Land — A Letter From the Queen — The Ghost Patrol — Things — Young Man Axelbrod — Speed — The Kidnaped Memorial — Moths in the Arc Light — The Hack Driver — Go East, Young Man - The Prodigal Parents (1938) [ read | download ]
- Bethel Merriday (1940)
- Gideon Planish (1943) [ read | download ]
- Cass Timberlane (1945) [ read | download ]
- Kingsblood Royal (1947) [ read | download ]
- The God-Seeker (1949)
- World So Wide (1951) [ read | download ]
