It Can’t Happen Here
Author: Sinclair Lewis
It is 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to the presidency-and his fascist policies turn the U.S. into a totalitarian state…..Read More
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Babbitt
Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything a man could wish: good health, a fine family, and a profitable business in a booming Midwestern city. But the… Continue Reading Posted in: City And Town Life, Classic Literature & Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Satire, Self-Help & Psychology Humor
Main Street
This is America, a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. So Sinclair Lewis, recipient of the Nobel Prize and… Continue Reading Posted in: Businessmen, Married Women, Middle Aged Men, Whispersync for Voice
The Man in the High Castle
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here (2007 Modern Classics edition) and here (2001 Modern Classics edition). A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Authors, Science Fiction, United States
Elmer Gantry
Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be "invited" to a jail cell in New Hampshire… Continue Reading Posted in: Feature Films, Fiction Satire, Middle Classes, Satire
Walden & Civil Disobedience
Disdainful of America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Ecology of Lakes & Ponds, Electronic Books, Environmentalist & Naturalist Biographies, Government, Resistance To
We
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet RussiaYevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George… Continue Reading Posted in: Abstract Or Summary, Bibliography, Classic Literature & Fiction, Dystopian Fiction, Russian Fiction
Kill Zone
An American general is captured in the Middle East by terrorists who threaten to behead him. But moments before he is rendered unconscious, the general notices that his captors speak… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Thriller, War
The Plot Against America
‘In The Plot Against America, Roth precisely described the sinister and chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself… America has not read enough of Philip Roth’ Bernard-Henri… Continue Reading Posted in: 1902 1974, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), Fiction, Lindbergh, Politics And Government
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