Celebrated Translations -- Big Street (Color Illustrations) (Color Illustrations)

Author: Sinclair Lewis (USA), translated by Pan Qingling
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Main Street has a novel theme, distinctive style, and exudes a rich sense of the American Midwest. Critics have called it the most outstanding work in American literature describing local color. Main Street is the masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis. After its publication, it quickly became a sensation in Europe and America, being reprinted 28 times within a year, and was 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 Kansas schools at the time.