{"product_id":"main-street-fully-annotated-edition-with-over-400-notes-9781847498960","title":"Main Street: Fully Annotated Edition with Over 400 Notes","description":"\u003cp\u003eYoung college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the small town from which her new husband hails. Imbued with ideals of urban improvement, she dreams of redesigning her adopted village, but her efforts are thwarted by the narrow-mindedness, pettiness and conventionality of the locals, who conspire against her and deride all her endeavours. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn enormous commercial and critical success on its first publication in 1920, \u003ci\u003eMain Street\u003c\/i\u003e - regarded by many as Sinclair Lewis's best novel - delivers a scathing satire on the American dream, and is invaluable as a document of pre-Prohibition Middle America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe American novelist and playwright \u003cb\u003eSinclair Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (1885-1951) is best remembered for \u003ci\u003eMain Street\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBabbitt\u003c\/i\u003e, two satirical novels criticizing the complacency of American society and the excesses of capitalism during the interwar period.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alma Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50498032632082,"sku":"9781847498960","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7072cff5-f2ec-4654-8dce-77d3205e30df.jpg?v=1748696363","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/main-street-fully-annotated-edition-with-over-400-notes-9781847498960","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}