![]() ![]() ![]() In the American Scholar for Spring, 1954, Frederick Mann mentioned Kingson and Kingsman as other names entertained by Lewis for his novel on the race question. ![]() The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown. respondence printed in From Main Street to Stockholm, evidence is scantier but what has been published shows no basic shift in Lewiss method of searching out a suitable title. “They were staggered to learn that a real tangible person, living in Minnesota, and married to their own flesh-and-blood relation, could apparently believe that divorce may not always be immoral that illegitimate children do not bear any special and guaranteed form of curse that there are ethical authorities outside of the Hebrew Bible that men have drunk wine yet not died in the gutter that the capitalistic system of distribution and the Baptist wedding-ceremony were not known in the Garden of Eden that mushrooms are as edible as corn-beef hash that the word "dude" is no longer frequently used that there are Ministers of the Gospel who accept evolution that some persons of apparent intelligence and business ability do not always vote the Republican ticket straight that it is not a universal custom to wear scratchy flannels next the skin in winter that a violin is not inherently more immoral than a chapel organ that some poets do not have long hair and that Jews are not always peddlers or pants-makers. Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. This is a novel about a perky and by all accounts fairly drop dead young woman named Carol who marries a guy who is a country doctor and is so eyejabbingly. ![]()
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