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Description&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RMain Street&&L/I&&R, by &&LB&&RSinclair Lewis&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&R&&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R: &&LDIV&&R
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics &&L/I&&Rpulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&R &&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&R"This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves." So &&LB&&RSinclair Lewis&&L/B&&R--recipient of the Nobel Prize and rejecter of the Pulitzer--prefaces his novel &&LI&&RMain Street&&L/I&&R. Lewis is brutal in his depictions of the self-satisfied inhabitants of small-town America, a place which proves to be merely an assemblage of pretty surfaces, strung together and ultimately empty.&&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LP&&R&&LB&&RBrooke Allen&&L/B&&R holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University. She is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including &&LI&&RThe Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Hudson Review&&L/I&&R, and &&LI&&RThe New Leader&&L/I&&R. A collection of her essays, &&LI&&RTwentieth Century Attitudes&&L/I&&R, will be published in 2003.&&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R Promotion info
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