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    The Job (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Sinclair Lewis

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    In the small town of Panama, Pennsylvania, Miss Una Golden chooses smooth-talking widower-salesman Edward Schwirtz over the decent Walter Babson—avoiding the then-suspect necessity for her to find a job. This 1917 novel by Lewis takes on women’s rights, anti-Semitism, alcoholism, venereal disease, adoption, and women who drink and smoke.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateMar 15, 2011
    ISBN9781411443433
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    Sinclair Lewis

    Nobel Prize-winning writer Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) is best known for novels like Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith (for which he was awarded but declined the Pulitzer Prize), and Elmer Gantry. A writer from his youth, Lewis wrote for and edited the Yale Literary Magazine while a student, and started his literary career writing popular stories for magazines and selling plots to other writers like Jack London. Lewis’s talent for description and creating unique characters won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, making him the first American writer to win the prestigious award. Considered to be one of the “greats” of American literature, Lewis was honoured with a Great Americans series postage stamp, and his work has been adapted for both stage and screen.

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      The JobBy Sinclair Lewis1917#23 of 100 Classics ChallengeUna Golden, a suffragist-in-training in New York City is battling many of the same societal norms woman are still fighting today. Equality. Not just between men and women, but between social and economic class. Capitalism vs. Socialism. Status Quo vs Individuality.This is the debut novel by Sinclair Lewis and is remarkably insightful and written with a fluidity that makes this compelling and engaging. His characters are so well developed, and one of the reasons he is one of my favorite authors.Highly Recommended.