Signet Classics, 1998, 1998. Soft cover. Near Fine. Mass market paperback, near fine in blue pictorial wraps. unmarked. 459 pp. includes biography of Lewis. Probably the first "scientific" novel -- explores medical and scientific themes in a fictional way and it is difficult to think of an earlier book that does this. Although he was not a doctor, Sinclair Lewis's father was and he was greatly helped in the preparation of the manuscript by the science writer Paul de Kruif. It was de Kruif who brings a reality to the book that is almost biographical.

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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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Bookseller: bookwitch (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 84178
Title: Arrowsmith (Signet Classics)
Author: Lewis, Sinclair
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0451526910
ISBN 13: 9780451526915
Publisher: Signet Classics, 1998
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published: 1998

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