TrackSectionReaderLength
01IntroductionDenny Sayers2:40
02Chapter 01Denny Sayers33:11
03Chapter 02Mark Nelson18:32
04Chapter 03Mark Nelson28:51
05Chapter 04Red Toby51:45
06Chapter 05Mark Nelson33:48
07Chapter 06Anthony Craine29:54
08Chapter 07Anthony Craine28:48
09Chapter 08Mark Nelson13:11
10Chapter 09Lucy Burgoyne28:46
11Chapter 10Lucy Burgoyne40:03
12Chapter 11Mark Nelson52:35
13Chapter 12Jesse Owen19:41
14Chapter 13Robert Beach16:36
15Chapter 14Robert Beach33:48
16Chapter 15Mark Nelson47:27
17Chapter 16Silver22:52
18Chapter 17Robert Beach26:26
19Chapter 18Barbara Pfaff30:57
20Chapter 19Robert Beach25:17
21Chapter 20J. M. Smallheer23:22
22Chapter 21Robert Beach28:31
23Chapter 22J. M. Smallheer27:26
24Chapter 23Robert Beach31:21
25Chapter 24Robert Beach41:41
26Chapter 25Robert Beach20:00
27Chapter 26Robert Beach17:53
28Chapter 27H Tanaka9:03
29Chapter 28Robert Beach33:09
30Chapter 29Robert Beach35:28
31Chapter 30Robert Beach31:29
32Chapter 31Robert Beach21:05
33Chapter 32Robert Beach33:27
34Chapter 33Mark Nelson37:20
35Chapter 34Danielle Flores16:14
36Chapter 35Sandra16:31
37Chapter 36Anthony Craine15:39
38Chapter 37Sandra14:08
39Chapter 38Michael Yard35:42
40Chapter 39Michael Yard21:19



Notes
Running Time: 18 hours 22 minutes
Read by: Multiple readers
Book Coordinator: Denny Sayers
Meta Coordinator: David Barnes

Artwork
Cover: Postcard of Main Street, Keene New Hampshire, looking north to Central Square, from Main Street Crossing. Done in the 1910s, Tichnor Quality Views, Keene Public Library.
Inset: Sinclair Lewis, photo from his award for Nobel laureate in Literature 1930.
Insert: Main Street first edition cover.

Recordings
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Main Street (1920) is Sinclair Lewis’ most significant work, and along with Babbitt, established him as the premier critic and satirist of small town America in the early 2oth century.  Set in the 1910’s and spanning the First World War and the onset of Prohibition, the story centers on the frustrations of Carol Milford, a liberal free spirit from St. Paul, Minnesota, who marries Will Kennicott, a doctor from Gopher Prairie, who persuades her to settle there.  Stunned by the town’s conservative backward ways and lack of beauty, she gamely joins in and tries to liven things up and bring about progressive change, only to meet with derision from the in crowd.  She manages to find companionship outside her class, but these connections are gradually broken. Reaching bottom, she leaves her husband and moves to Washington, DC, but eventually returns, disappointed but undefeated. Not surprisingly, the book created a backlash when it was published; it was banned in Alexandria, MN. Some thought it exceptionally bleak and humorless.  Today it is listed number 68 by the Modern Library on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.


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EAN - DVD case 0683422134647
EAN - CD jacket 0687700170969
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Box
Author Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
Year 1920
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Read by Multiple readers
Length 18 hours and 16 minutes
Type of Reading Collaborative

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