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Sinclair Lewis • 78 Items / 29 Books, 33 Articles, 4 Reviews, 1 Poem
Main Street (1920)
by Sinclair Lewis
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Published Reviews
  1. The Critics
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    Books: Exile On Main Street (Review)
    John Updike
    Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
    1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    The New Yorker, May 17, 1993, pp. 91-97
  2. Reviews of Books
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    God's Country (Review)
    F.H.
    Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
    1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    The New Republic, December 1, 1920, p. 20
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    Looking Backwards (Review)
    Lewis Gannett
    Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street"
    1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    The Saturday Review, August 6, 1949, p. 31
  4. [+]
    "True Story But What's the Use?" (Review)
    Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
    1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    The Literary Digest, March 19, 1921, pp. 74-93
  5. [+]
    Main Street (Review)
    Stanton A. Coblentz
    Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
    1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    The Bookman, January 1921, p. 357
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    The Romance of Sinclair Lewis (2 Reviews)
    Gore Vidal
    Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
    1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    2. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
    The New York Review of Books, October 8, 1992, pp. 14-20
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    The Epic of Dulness (2 Reviews)
    Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
    1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    2. Poor White by Sherwood Anderson
    The Nation, November 10, 1920, p. 536
  8. The Book Table
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    Hemmed in by Circumstnace (4 Reviews)
    R.D. Townsend
    The Captives, by Hugh Walpole
    1. The Captives by Hugh Walpole
    2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    3. The Inevitable by Louis Couperus
    4. The Watch-Dog of the Crown by John Knipe
    The Outlook, January 5, 1921, p. 31
  9. [+]
    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (77 Reviews)
    Sleeping Fires, by Gertrude Atherton
    1. Sleeping Fires by Gertrude Atherton
    2. The Fair Rewards by Thomas Beer
    3. The Way of Laughter by Harold Begbie
    4. Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett
    5. Salt Lake by Pierre Benoit
    6. The Prisoners of Hartling by John D. Beresford
    7. The Idol of Paris by Sarah Bernhardt
    8. The Soul of a Child by Edwin Bjorkman
    9. Van Zanten's Happy Days by Laurids Bruun
    10. The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
    11. The Master of Man by Hall Caine
    12. Mendoza and a Little Lady by William Caine
    13. The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield
    14. The Hands of Nara by Richard Washburn Child
    15. To Him That Hath by Ralph Connor
    16. The Flaming Forest by James Oliver Curwood
    17. Humbug by E.M. Delafield
    18. Explorers of the Dawn by Mazo de la Roche
    19. The Obstacle Race by Ethel M. Dell
    20. The Briary-Bush by Floyd Dell
    21. Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
    22. The Girls by Edna Ferber
    23. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    24. Rahab by Waldo Frank
    25. The Widow's Cruse by H. Hamilton Fyfe
    26. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
    27. The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory
    28. To the Last Man by Zane Grey
    29. Guest the One-Eyed by Gunnar Gunnarsson
    30. Wanderers by Knut Hamsun
    31. Saint Teresa by Henry Sydnor Harrison
    32. Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hemon
    33. The Inheritance of Jean Trouve by Nevil G. Henshaw
    34. Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer
    35. She Blows! And Sparm at That by William John Hopkins
    36. The Sheik by E.M. Hull
    37. The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst
    38. Coomer Ali by Samuel Bertram Haworth Hurst
    39. If Winter Comes by A.S.M. Hutchinson
    40. Chanting Wheels by Hubbard Hutchinson
    41. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
    42. The Bracegirdle by Burris Jenkins
    43. Silver Cross by Mary Johnston
    44. Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable
    45. Conflict by Clarence Budington Kelland
    46. The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. Kyne
    47. The Outcast by Selma Lagerlof
    48. Shepherd's Warning by Eric Leadbitter
    49. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    50. The Backsliders by William Lindsey
    51. Shepherds of the Wild by Edison Marshall
    52. One Man's View by Leonard Merrick
    53. Oh, Susanna! by Meade Minnigerode
    54. Patchwork by Beverley Nichols
    55. Brass by Charles G. Norris
    56. Lucretia Lombard by Kathleen Norris
    57. The Best Short Stories of 1921 by Edward J. O'Brien
    58. One Woman by Alfred Ollivant
    59. The Great Prince Shan by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    60. Kimono by John Paris
    61. Nene by Ernest Perochon
    62. Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter
    63. An Ordeal of Honor by Anthony Pryde
    64. Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick
    65. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
    66. The Doom Trail by Arthur D. Howden Smith
    67. Dancers in the Dark by Dorothy Speare
    68. Birthright by T.S. Stribling
    69. Fresh Every Hour by John Peter Toohey
    70. The Tribal God by Herbert Tremaine
    71. The Road to the World by Webb Waldron
    72. The Young Enchanted by Hugh Walpole
    73. The Lonely Warrior by Claude C. Washburn
    74. The House of Rimmon by Mary S. Watts
    75. Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman
    76. The Body in the Blue Room by Sidney Williams
    77. Helen of the Old House by Harold Bell Wright
    The Bookman, May 1922, pp. 293-297
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    The Bookman's Guide to Fiction (77 Reviews)
    The Isle of Seven Moons, by Robert Gordon Anderson
    1. The Isle of Seven Moons by Robert Gordon Anderson
    2. Hoax by Ridley Wills
    3. Sleeping Fires by Gertrude Atherton
    4. The Man on the Other Side by Ada Barnett
    5. The First Person Singular by William Rose Benet
    6. Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett
    7. A Daughter of the Badlands by Kate Boyles Bingham and Virgil D. Boyles
    8. Hepplestall's by Harold Brighouse
    9. The Personal Touch by Emma Beatrice Brunner
    10. The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
    11. "Q" by Katharine Newlin Burt
    12. The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield
    13. Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. Cobb
    14. The Flaming Forest by James Oliver Curwood
    15. Guinea Girl by Norman Davey
    16. The Vanishing Point by Coningsby Dawson
    17. Revelation by Dulcie Deamer
    18. Lilia Chenoworth by Lee Wilson Dodd
    19. Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
    20. Rimrock Trail by J. Allan Dunn
    21. The Illusion by Raymond Escholier
    22. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    23. The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster
    24. The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory
    25. To the Last Man by Zane Grey
    26. Immortal Athalia by Harry F. Haley
    27. The Canyon of the Fools by Richard Matthews Hallet
    28. The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton
    29. Saint Teresa by Henry Sydnor Harrison
    30. Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hemon
    31. Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer
    32. Number 87 by Harrington Hext
    33. Elinor Colhouse by Stephen Hudson
    34. The Sheik by E.M. Hull
    35. If Winter Comes by A.S.M. Hutchinson
    36. The White Kami by Edward Alden Jewell
    37. The Veneerings by Harry Johnston
    38. The Blue Circle by Elizabeth Garver Jordan
    39. Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable
    40. The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. Kyne
    41. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
    42. The Two Flames by Mabel Maas
    43. Big Peter by Archibald Marshall
    44. Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters
    45. General Bramble by Andre Maurois
    46. Slag by Donald McGibeny
    47. Goldie Green by Samuel Merwin
    48. Tex by Clarence E. Mulford
    49. Double Crossed by W. Douglas Newton
    50. Brass by Charles G. Norris
    51. Lucretia Lombard by Kathleen Norris
    52. The Best Short Stories of 1921 by Edward J. O'Brien
    53. Vocations by Gerald O'Donovan
    54. Then Came Molly by Harriet Verona Cadwalader Ogden
    55. Madame Valcour's Lodger by Florence Olmstead
    56. The Great Prince Shan by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    57. Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter
    58. An Ordeal of Honor by Anthony Pryde
    59. In Leading Strings by J.K. Pulling
    60. Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick
    61. The Moon Rock by Arthur J. Rees
    62. A Man of Purpose by Donald Richberg
    63. The Winter Bell by Henry M. Rideout
    64. The Ashes of Achievement by Frank A. Russell
    65. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
    66. Adrienne Toner by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
    67. Square Deal Sanderson by Charles Alden Seltzer
    68. The Combined Maze by May Sinclair
    69. The Prairie Child by Arthur Stringer
    70. Linda Lee, Incorporated by Louis Joseph Vance
    71. Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works by Carl Van Vechten
    72. Margey Wins the Game by John Van Alstyne Weaver
    73. Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson
    74. Three Men and a Maid by P.G. Wodehouse
    75. Helen of the Old House by Harold Bell Wright
    76. Homestead Ranch by Elizabeth G. Young
    77. Hurricane Williams by Gordon Young
    The Bookman, June 1922, pp. 410-414