The classic collection of Sinclair Lewis. Nobel Prize 1930. Illustrated : Free Air, Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Mantrap, Elmer Gantry and others , livre ebook

The Classic Collection of Sinclair Lewis
Nobel Prize 1930
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 — January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first 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.” He is best known for his novels Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927).
In 1930 Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award, after he had been nominated by Henrik Schück, member of the Swedish Academy. In the academy's presentation speech, special attention was paid to Babbitt. In his Nobel Lecture, Lewis praised Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and other contemporaries, but also lamented that “in America most of us — not readers alone, but even writers — are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues,” and that America is “the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today.” He also offered a profound criticism of the American literary establishment: “Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”

CONTENTS:
Our Mr. Wrenn (1914)
The Trail of the Hawk (1915)
The Job (1917)
The Innocents (1917)
Free Air (1919)
Main Street (1920)
Babbitt (1922)
Arrowsmith (1925)
Mantrap (1926)
Elmer Gantry (1927)
Table of Contents
Our Mr. Wrenn (1914)
Chapter I MR. WRENN IS LONELY
Chapter II HE WALKS WITH MISS THERESA
Chapter III HE STARTS FOR THE LAND OF ELSEWHERE
Chapter IV HE BECOMES THE GREAT LITTLE BILL WRENN
Chapter V HE FINDS MUCH QUAINT ENGLISH FLAVOR
Chapter VI HE IS AN ORPHAN
Chapter VII HE MEETS A TEMPERAMENT
Chapter VIII HE TIFFINS
Chapter IX HE ENCOUNTERS THE INTELLECTUALS
Chapter X HE GOES A-GIPSYING
Chapter XI HE BUYS AN ORANGE TIE
Chapter XII HE DISCOVERS AMERICA
Chapter XIII HE IS “OUR MR. WRENN”
Chapter XIV HE ENTERS SOCIETY
Chapter XV HE STUDIES FIVE HUNDRED, SAVOUIR FAIRE, AND LOTSA-SNAP OFFICE MOTTOES
Chapter XVI HE BECOMES MILDLY RELIGIOUS AND HIGHLY LITERARY
Chapter XVII HE IS BLOWN BY THE WHIRLWIND
Chapter XVIII AND FOLLOWS A WANDERING FLAME THROUGH PERILOUS SEAS
Chapter XIX TO A HAPPY SHORE
The Trail of the Hawk (1915)
Part I THE ADVENTURE OF YOUTH
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Part II THE ADVENTURE OF ADVENTURING
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII (THE DIARY OF MR. ERICSON, CONTINUED. — EDITOR)
Part III THE ADVENTURE OF LOVE
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
Chapter XXXIX
Chapter XL
Chapter XLI
Chapter XLII
The Job (1917)
Part I THE CITY
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Part II THE OFFICE
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Part III MAN AND WOMAN
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
The Innocents (1917)
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Free Air (1919)
Chapter I MISS BOLTWOOD OF BROOKLYN IS LOST IN THE MUD
Chapter II CLAIRE ESCAPES FROM RESPECTABILITY
Chapter III A YOUNG MAN IN A RAINCOAT
Chapter IV A ROOM WITHOUT
Chapter V RELEASE BRAKES — SHIFT TO THIRD
Chapter VI THE LAND OF BILLOWING CLOUDS
Chapter VII THE GREAT AMERICAN FRYING PAN
Chapter VIII THE DISCOVERY OF CANNED SHRIMPS AND HESPERIDES
Chapter IX THE MAN WITH AGATE EYES
Chapter X THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE HILLSIDE ROAD
Chapter XI SAGEBRUSH TOURISTS OF THE GREAT HIGHWAY
Chapter XII THE WONDERS OF NATURE WITH ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS
Chapter XIII ADVENTURERS BY FIRELIGHT
Chapter XIV THE BEAST OF THE CORRAL
Chapter XV THE BLACK DAY OF THE VOYAGE
Chapter XVI THE SPECTACLES OF AUTHORITY
Chapter XVII THE VAGABOND IN GREEN
Chapter XVIII THE FALLACY OF ROMANCE
Chapter XIX THE NIGHT OF ENDLESS PINES
Chapter XX THE FREE WOMAN
Chapter XXI THE MINE OF LOST SOULS
Chapter XXII ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD
Chapter XXIII THE GRAEL IN A BACK YARD IN YAKIMA
Chapter XXIV HER OWN PEOPLE
Chapter XXV THE ABYSSINIAN PRINCE
Chapter XXVI A CLASS IN ENGINEERING AND OMELETS
Chapter XXVII THE VICIOUSNESS OF NICE THINGS
Chapter XXVIII THE MORNING COAT OF MR. HUDSON B. RIGGS
Chapter XXIX THE ENEMY LOVE
Chapter XXX THE VIRTUOUS PLOTTERS
Chapter XXXI THE KITCHEN INTIMATE
Chapter XXXII THE CORNFIELD ARISTOCRAT
Chapter XXXIII TOOTH-MUG TEA
Chapter XXXIV THE BEGINNING OF A STORY
Main Street (1920)
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXIX
Babbitt (1922)
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV
Arrowsmith (1925)
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
Chapter XXXIX
Chapter XL
Mantrap (1926)
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Elmer Gantry (1927)
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
Our Mr. Wrenn (1914)
Chapter I
MR. WRENN IS LONELY
T he ticket-taker of the Nickelorion Moving-Picture Show is a public personage, who stands out on Fourteenth Street, New York, wearing a gorgeous light-blue coat of numerous brass buttons. He nods to all the patrons, and his nod is the most cordial in town. Mr. Wrenn used to trot down to Fourteenth Street, passing ever so many other shows, just to get that cordial nod, because he had a lonely furnished room for evenings, and for daytime a tedious job that always made his head stuffy.
He stands out in the correspondence of the Souvenir and Art Novelty Company as “Our Mr. Wrenn,” who would be writing you directly and explaining everything most satisfactorily. At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always bending over bills and columns of figures at a desk behind the stock-room. He was a meek little bachlor — a person of inconspicuous blue ready-made suits, and a small unsuccessful mustache.
To-day — historians have established the date as April 9, 1910—there had been some confusing mixed orders from the Wisconsin retailers, and Mr. Wrenn had been “called down” by the office manager, Mr. Mortimer R. Guilfogle. He needed the friendly nod of the Nickelorion ticket-taker. He found Fourteenth Street, after office hours, swept by a dusty wind that whisked the skirts of countless plump Jewish girls, whose V-necked blouses showed soft throats of a warm brown. Under the elevated station he secretly made believe that he was in Paris, for here beautiful Italian boys swayed with trays of violets; a tramp displayed crimson mechanical rabbits, which squeaked, on silvery leading-strings; and a newsstand was heaped with the orange and green and gold of magazine covers.
“Gee!” inarticulated Mr. Wrenn. “Lots of colors. Hope I see foreign stuff like that in the moving pictures.”
He came primly up to