ISBN: 2940013342347

This is America-a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and cornand dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called "Gopher Prairie, Minnesota." But itsMain Street is t… mais…

This is America-a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and cornand dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called "Gopher Prairie, Minnesota." But itsMain Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The storywould be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in theCarolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car This is America-a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and cornand dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called "Gopher Prairie, Minnesota." But itsMain Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The storywould be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in theCarolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car mightstand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmuswrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to EzraStowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and theunprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know andsanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked toconsider. Our railway station is the final aspiration of architecture. SamClark's annual hardware turnover is the envy of the four counties whichconstitute God's Country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebud MoviePalace there is a Message, and humor strictly moral. Such is our comfortable tradition and sure faith. Would he not betrayhimself an alien cynic who should otherwise portray Main Street, ordistress the citizens by speculating whether there may not be otherfaiths? EBooks, Books, MAIN-STREET~~Sinclair-Lewis, 1363398, MAIN STREET, Sinclair Lewis, 0013342347, SAP, , , , , SAP<

ISBN: 2940013342347

This is America-a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and cornand dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called "Gopher Prairie, Minnesota." But itsMain Street is t… mais…

This is America-a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and cornand dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called "Gopher Prairie, Minnesota." But itsMain Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The storywould be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in theCarolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car This is America-a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and cornand dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called "Gopher Prairie, Minnesota." But itsMain Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The storywould be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in theCarolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car mightstand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmuswrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to EzraStowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and theunprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know andsanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked toconsider. Our railway station is the final aspiration of architecture. SamClark's annual hardware turnover is the envy of the four counties whichconstitute God's Country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebud MoviePalace there is a Message, and humor strictly moral. Such is our comfortable tradition and sure faith. Would he not betrayhimself an alien cynic who should otherwise portray Main Street, ordistress the citizens by speculating whether there may not be otherfaiths? EBooks, Books, MAIN-STREET~~Sinclair-Lewis, , , , , , , , , , SAP<