Main Street (novel)

Main Street

First edition
Author	Sinclair Lewis
Language	English
Publisher	Harcourt, Brace and Howe
Publication date	1920
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback), and audiobook
Pages	448 pages
ISBN	1420930923

Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. Satirizing small-town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown, during the 1910s. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott, a self-made young woman with a strong personality, as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents of Gopher Prairie. References are made to the start of World War I, the United States' entry into the war, and the years following its end, including the start of Prohibition in 1920.

Highly acclaimed upon publication, Main Street was turned into a play in 1921,^[1] and a movie in 1923, the first by Warner Bros. studio. It remains a recognized American classic.^{[citation needed]}