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| | Sinclair Lewis Collection at Bartleby.com |
 | | There are dozens of young poets and fictioneersmost of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull. |
 | | Probably the greatest satirist of his era, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s.
; With the publication of Main Street (1920), a merciless satire on life in a Midwestern small town, Lewis immediately became an important literary figure. |
 | | His next novel, Babbitt (1922), considered by many critics to be his greatest work, is a portrait of an average American businessman, a Republican and a Rotarian, whose individuality has been erased by conformist values.continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. |
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