Main Street - Couverture souple

Lewis, Sinclair

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444464604 ISBN 13 : 9781444464603

Editeur : Aeterna, 2026

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Carol Milford dreams of beauty, purpose, and a life enlarged by ideas. When she marries Dr. Will Kennicott and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, she believes she can transform a dull prairie town into a place of culture, imagination, and generous community. Instead she meets complacency, gossip, suspicion, and the stubborn comfort of “the way things are.” Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street is a brilliant, humane, and sharply comic portrait of one woman’s revolt against provincial narrowness and the social machinery that quietly resists change. Carol’s campaigns for better architecture, livelier conversation, theatre, reform, and personal freedom become battles not only with her neighbors, but with marriage, loneliness, vanity, and her own uncertain ideals. Around her, Lewis builds a richly detailed world of merchants, doctors, clubwomen, farmers, boosters, and respectable conformists, each rendered with satirical bite and surprising sympathy. Published in 1920, Main Street helped redefine American fiction by exposing the spiritual limits of small-town self-satisfaction while refusing easy answers. Witty, restless, and deeply observant, it remains a compelling novel of aspiration, disappointment, independence, and the painful question of whether one person can make ordinary life less ordinary. Its challenge still feels startlingly modern, intimate, and alive for readers today now.

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