Elmer Gantry

by Sinclair Lewis

2021-01-01 17:02:19

Sinclair Lewis’ world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring ʼ20s.   Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinc... Read more
Sinclair Lewis’ world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring ʼ20s.
 
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 and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church—a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence—is also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no trace of itself. Elmer Gantry has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.
 
With an introduction by Jason Stevens Less

Book Details

File size6.8 X 4.2 X 1.2 in
Print pages496
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date December 4, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780451530752
Harry Sinclair Lewis (Feb 7, 1885 – Jan 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the N...

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