Those are some pretty big books! Classics that everyone should read.
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I guess that everyone should read Main Street, just to indirectly experience the story of a hick who moves to the big city, trashes the people back home, reinforces the prejudices of the urban sophisticates, and achieves fame and fortune thereby,
In the last year or so I have found two special addition Sinclair Lewis books (b0xed books published in the late 40s) at Half Priced Books: Babbitt and Main Street (Babbitt was still wrapped in the cellophane…amazing.) Still looking to read Arrowsmith and It Can’t Happen Here…and maybe more after that.
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I guess that everyone should read Main Street, just to indirectly experience the story of a hick who moves to the big city, trashes the people back home, reinforces the prejudices of the urban sophisticates, and achieves fame and fortune thereby,
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Better than the public library: https://www.odysseybooksgifts.com/
(I stop in every time I am in the area. (Technically true…I’ve been there once.)
For what its worth, I found a bargain in a fine copy of My Antonia ( a few weeks after it was discussed among a group on Ricochet).
I found that the library tends to only stock newer stuff. I might end up buying them anyway! With my new job, I can afford it now.
In the last year or so I have found two special addition Sinclair Lewis books (b0xed books published in the late 40s) at Half Priced Books: Babbitt and Main Street (Babbitt was still wrapped in the cellophane…amazing.) Still looking to read Arrowsmith and It Can’t Happen Here…and maybe more after that.