In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.

美国作家辛克莱·刘易斯的经典作品《大街》讲述了卡萝尔不甘心在闲适中虚掷青春，立志要改造乡镇的故事。小说主题新颖，风格别致，洋溢着浓郁的美国中西部地方风情，评论家称此书是美国文学中描述地方风情最出色的文学作品。《大街》是美国第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的作家辛克莱·刘易斯的代表作，问世后迅速风靡欧美国家，一年内再版28次，被称为“20世纪美国出版史上最轰动的事件”。小说主题新颖，风格别致，洋溢着浓郁的美国中西部地方风情，评论家称此书是美国文学中描述地方风情最出色的文学作品。

美国作家辛克莱·刘易斯的经典作品《大街》讲述了卡萝尔不甘心在闲适中虚掷青春，立志要改造乡镇的故事。小说主题新颖，风格别致，洋溢着浓郁的美国中西部地方风情，评论家称此书是美国文学中描述地方风情最出色的文学作品。《大街》是美国第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的作家辛克莱·刘易斯的代表作，问世后迅速风靡欧美国家，一年内再版28次，被称为“20世纪美国出版史上最轰动的事件”。小说主题新颖，风格别致，洋溢着浓郁的美国中西部地方风情，评论家称此书是美国文学中描述地方风情最出色的文学作品。

《大街》是美国诺贝尔文学奖得主辛克莱•路易斯的代表作，问世后迅速风靡欧美国家，一年内重印28次，被誉为“发现美国的一个里程碑”，是“20世纪美国出版史上轰动的事件”。此书还成了当时堪萨斯州各级学校学生的必读教材。此电子书为全英文版。

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

1899. Hamlin Garland was born near La Crosse, Wisconsin and lived in the area for nine years before his family moved to South Dakota. As an adult he lived in major cities throughout the United States but visited his birthplace often. In 1922 he received a Pulitzer Prize for A Daughter of the Middle Border, and was also director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for a ...(展开全部)

Main-Travelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised 1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw" shows an honest, hard-working farmer victimized by a greedy landlord. Equally powerful is the semi-autobiographical "Up the Coolly," concerning a successful son who returns from the East to find his mother and brother trapped on a poor...(展开全部)