Sinclair Lewis (12 kníh)
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Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith CZPrvní velký americký román o lékařích a vědeckých pracovnících v oboru bakteriologie. Příběh mladého doktora Arrowsmitha, který se navzdory četným zklamáním nevzdává svých lékařských ani lidských ideálů. Ani těžké podmínky pro vědeckou činnost ve zkomercionalizovaném systému a množství trpkých zkušeností v boji s epidemií moru, při níž ztrácí i své nejbližší, ho neodradí od další vědecké práce.
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Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith ENArrowsmith, the most widely read of Sinclair Lewis’s novels, is the incisive portrait of a man passionately devoted to science. As a bright, curious boy in a small Midwestern town, Martin Arrowsmith spends his free time in old Doc Vickerson’s office avidly devouring medical texts. Destined to become a physician and a researcher, he discovers that societal forces of ignorance, greed, and corruption can be as life…
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Sinclair Lewis Elmer Gantry ENPossibly the best student of hypocrisy since Voltaire This portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist-who lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and self-indulgence-is also the chronicle of a reign of vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no record of itself.
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Sinclair Lewis It Can't Happen Here ENIt Can t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the…
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Sinclair Lewis Main Street ENThe first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after…
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