Society

Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis

A woman with ambitions for culture and reform moves to a small prairie town and discovers the town has rather firm opinions about being improved. Lewis skewered small-town American complacency so precisely that the book briefly became a genuine social scandal. She does not win, exactly, but she also never entirely stops trying.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 11 hr 20 min

Where to find it

On the Society shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #543. In the public domain in the United States.