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Author: Sinclair Lewis (United States)
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Publishing Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book is the masterpiece of Sinclair Lewis, an American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. It quickly became popular in the Western countries after its publication and was reprinted 28 times within a year, being hailed as the "most sensational event in 20th-century American publishing history." The book also became a required reading for students in all levels of schools in Kansas at that time. The novel is set in a small town in the United States before and after World War II, depicting the story of Carol, an urban intellectual who marries into the town and becomes a country doctor's wife. The novel features a fresh theme, a distinctive style, and a rich sense of the American Midwest, with critics calling it the "most outstanding work in American literature describing local color."