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Arrowsmith.

Arrowsmith.

Arrowsmith.
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Arrowsmith.

by Sinclair Lewis

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0451526910
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9780451526915
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New York, NY New American Library: Signet Classic , 1998. Paperback First Edition Thus (1998); Fourth Printing. Near Fine in Wraps: shows just a hint of wear to the the corner tips; a tiny, faint crease at the lower front corner tip; "Sinclair Lewis Museum Logo and an image of a statue of Lewis rubber stamped at the inside of the front cover; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the back-strip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tighly bound, showing minor imperfections only. Bright and clean. Close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.9 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches). 458 pages. Afterward by E.L. Doctorow. Language: English. Weight: 8 ounces. First Edition Thus (1998); Fourth Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first in fact from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). Lewis was greatly assisted in its preparation by science writer Paul de Kruif, who received 25% of the royalties on sales, although Lewis was listed as the sole author. Arrowsmith is an early major novel dealing with the culture of science. It was written in the period after the reforms of medical education flowing from the Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, which had called on medical schools in the United States to adhere to mainstream science in their teaching and research.

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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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Title
Arrowsmith.
Author
Sinclair Lewis
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Paperback
Book Condition
Used
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Edition
First Edition Thus (1998); Fourth Printing.
ISBN 10
0451526910
ISBN 13
9780451526915
Publisher
New American Library: Signet Classic ,
Place of Publication
New York, NY
Date Published
1998.
Bookseller catalogs
American Literature; Modern Fiction; Classic American Fiction; Fiction: Collectible Paperbacks; Contemporary Fiction; American Popular Fiction;

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