MAIN STREET

This book is included in the 13th series of our “The Most Classical English Literature Library”. It is a selection of Main Street, a classic work by Sinclair Lewis, an American writer. It tells the story of Carol, who is unwilling to waste her youth in idleness and is determined to transform the township. The novel has an original theme and a charming style, full of rich local flavor of the American Midwest. Critics say this book is the best literary work in American literature to describe the local flavor. Main Street, the masterpiece of Sinclair Lewis, the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, quickly became popular in Europe and the United States, and was reprinted 28 times within a year, which was called “the most sensational event in the history of American publishing in the 20th century”. The book also became a required reading material for students at all levels in Kansas schools at that time. The novel has an original theme and a charming style, full of rich local flavor of the American Midwest. Critics say this book is the best literary work in American literature to describe the local flavor.