Título: Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Autor: Sinclair Lewis
Sinopse: Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the readers viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works. "This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves." So Sinclair Lewis--recipient of the Nobel Prize and rejecter of the Pulitzer--prefaces his novel Main Street. Lewis is brutal in his depictions of the self-satisfied inhabitants of small-town America, a place which proves to be merely an assemblage of pretty surfaces, strung together and ultimately empty.Brooke Allen holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University. She is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Hudson Review, and The New Leader. A collection of her essays, Twentieth Century Attitudes, will be published in 2003.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)”, de Sinclair Lewis, publicado pela editora Barnes & Noble Classics, em 2008 e com 496 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Barnes & Noble Classics
Páginas: 496
Ano: 2008
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781593083861
ISBN13: 9781593083861
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Barnes & Noble Classics oferecem uma experiência de leitura enriquecida, com edições que combinam textos clássicos da literatura e do pensamento com recursos críticos e históricos. A coleção privilegia obras que atravessam séculos, desde epopeias antigas até romances do século XIX e ensaios influentes, sempre apresentadas com introduções, cronologias e notas que contextualizam o leitor. O tom varia entre narrativas densas e reflexivas, como as de grandes romances realistas, e textos que exploram conflitos sociais ou dilemas morais, com ritmo que pode ser tanto contemplativo quanto marcado por tensão dramática. O catálogo traz obras que dialogam com questões históricas e culturais, frequentemente acompanhadas de comentários que ampliam a compreensão do leitor sobre o impacto literário e social dessas obras.
