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Sinclair Lewis' satirical 'It Can't Happen Here' feels current in 2016 ...  Mar 17, 2016 ... Sinclair Lewis' 1935 political satire 'It Can't Happen Here' feels current .... Nonetheless, Windrip stands full-strength behind freedom of religion,...
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Jeopary Questions page 1743 - SODOM & GOMORRAH ...  "SAR" CHASM: The Muslim soldiers who fought against the Christian Crusaders in the ... SATIRE: Sinclair Lewis' biting 1927 satire of religious fundamentalism.
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This Sinclair Lewis physician begins his practice in his wife's ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... The wife of this Sinclair Lewis research scientist dies during an ... Sinclair Lewis' biting 1927 satire of religious fundamentalism # Quiz #...
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Elmer Gantry - Wikipedia  Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the religious activity of America in fundamentalist and evangelistic ... Elmer Gantry ranked as the number one fiction bestseller of 1927, according to...
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Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs ...  His biting, insightful, and humorous look at religious hypocrisy is as pertinant ..... First published in 1927, Sinclair Lewis fingered the conniving evangelist for us. ... It's certainly the best satire of religious fundamentalism in the US I've read.
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Main Street by Sinclair Lewis  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists  This was Lewis first novel, published in 1920, and it was a huge success, both ... Lewis felt that Main Street should have won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 but was...
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Elmer Gantry - Wikipedia  Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the ... The character of Sharon Falconer was loosely based on events in the career of the Canadian-born American ... After this catastrophe, he briefly acts as a "New Thought" evangelist, and eventually becomes a Methodist minister.
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Monstrous Theologies: The Theme of Anti-Sacrifice ... - Anthropoetics  Those seeking to understand science fiction in its generic particulars will ... and indeed appears to become the core of the genre, in the pulp magazines of the 1930s .... Allow me to speak, then, of that Latin-speaking Epicurean Lucretius and of .... The satiric tone of the tale tends to mask this horror, but the horror lurks in the...
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American Dreams: "Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis - The Daily Beast  Mar 19, 2012 ... Sinclair Lewis's satirical 1922 novel 'Babbitt' became a national phenomenon. ... A real estate agent in the fictional Midwestern city of Zenith, population ... civic association that will accept him: the State Association of Real Estate ... athletic nor a club), and, most triumphantly of all, the Zenith Boosters' Club.
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Sinclair Lewis  Sinclair Lewis was born and raised in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. ... During the 1920s Lewis published a series of novels that satirized several aspects of American...
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Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, Babbitt's Booster Speech on the City of ...  Set in the fictional midwestern city of Zenith in 1920, Sinclair Lewis's classic novel Babbitt ... His lead character, George Babbitt, a real estate broker and.
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Babbitt: Biography: Sinclair Lewis | Novelguide  Babbitt: Biography: Sinclair Lewis, Free Study Guides and book notes ... complete summary analysis, author biography information, character profiles, theme analysis, metaphor analysis, and top ten quotes on classic literature. ... His first, Hike and the Aeroplane (1912), was published under the pseudonym Tom Graham.
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The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis - C. S. Lewis - Google Books  Lewis's weekly letters to his brother, Warnie, away serving in the army during ... After the serialization of The Screwtape Letters, the director of religious broadcasting at the BBC approached Lewis and the "Mere Christianity" talks were born. ... to him after the great success of his BBC radio broadcasts during World War II...
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1921 Near Miss: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis | Reading the Pulitzer ...  Mar 16, 2014 ... Main Street is the 1920 novel by Sinclair Lewis that tells the story of Carol Milford, ... Carol meets and marries Will Kennicott, a doctor who convinces her to ... to be told that they're pro-German dissidents, she says, Of course,...
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Sinclair Lewis - Wikipedia  Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States 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. .... Gantry (1927), which depicted an evangelical minister as deeply hypocritical.
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Search eText, Read Online, Study ...  Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a ... of the food industry, it is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform. ..... Muckrakers like Sinclair exposed the wickedness of the industrial machine and...
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Hartwig - Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies  The Organization Man Still Matters: Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt (1922) ... In September 1922 Sinclair Lewis sketched the average American businessman in his novel Babbitt. The story revolves around George F. Babbitt, a 46-year-old realtor and family ... Indeed, Lewis's Babbitt features a fragmentary framework and the author...
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Radio Theatre: C.S. Lewis at War: The Dramatic Story Behind Mere ...  Mere Christianity, one of the greatest Christian books of the twentieth century, was ... drama integrates the ideas Lewis explored in Mere Christianity with the very real ... of C. S. Lewis include The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters. .... serious concentration to listen to the reading of his book/his radio lectures.
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Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists  This book was written in and about the 1920... ... Widely considered Sinclair Lewis' greatest novel, this satire remains an .... George F. Babbitt is a real estate agent in Zenith, a Midwestern city of of "towers of ...... by Edith Wharton, to whom BABBITT was dedicated, for its "excess of slang"; and by Gore Vidal for its lack of plot.
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Who is the greatest American novelist? 8: Sinclair Lewis v Wallace ...  Dec 27, 2013 ... Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry v Wallace Stegner's The Spectator Bird ... The novel still stands, however, as a record of a grotesquely decadent...
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Martin Arrowsmith's clinical trial: scientific precision and ... - NCBI  For a while, Martin Arrowsmith, the hero of Sinclair Lewis's 1925 eponymous novel ... 'The professor of materia medica, Dr. Lloyd Davidson, would have been an .... His wife Leora dies from accidental contamination with the plague bacillus, and .... the bubonic plague epidemic raging on the mythical island of St Hubert (