Ann Vickers

by Sinclair Lewis

Overview

Lewis's Ann Vickers is a complex character; a strong-minded prison superintendent dedicated to enlightened social reform, she also seeks to fulfill herself as a sexual being. Ann Vickers is in all respects her own person, standing up to the confining rules of her society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789357270373
Publisher:	Double 9 Books
Publication date:	04/22/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	454,200
File size:	880 KB

About the Author

Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story author and playwright renowned for becoming the first American awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1930. He was remembered "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters." His works are well-known for their exhaustive and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as their strong characterizations of modern working women. Sinclair Lewis was born on 7 February 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. His parents were Edwin and Emma Lewis, and he had two older brothers, Fred and Claude. Lewis started reading books at a young age and kept a diary. Growing up, Lewis went to public schools and visited Yale University for college. He graduated in 1908, after taking a break in 1906. Lewis had some fascinating jobs after he graduated from college and they all associated with writing or editing in some way. In Iowa and San Francisco, he worked as a newspaper journalist. He later performed at a publishing house in New York. His two marriages ended in divorce, and he drank extremely. He expired of the effects of advanced alcoholism in Rome, Italy on 10 January 1951. He is best known for his novels Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth, and It Can't Happen Here.

Editorial Reviews

Initially published in 1933 and 1917, respectively, these novels both feature women struggling to live in a male-dominated society. Though these novels are lesser known than Arrowsmith and Main Street, Lewis's stature as a heavyweight of American literature makes them worthy additions to library collections.

Library Journal

"An excellent indictment of the American prison system and a cutting satire on the various reform movements and cults which won the loyalty of Lewis's own generation."—New York Evening Post

New York Evening Post

"A great story, brilliantly done. It has form—the form of Ann's life. . . . It has humour and satiric purpose, and it gives a brilliant summary of the changes in twentieth-century America."—Spectator

Spectator

"Entirely delightful, intensely interesting."—Saturday Review

Saturday Review

"Ann Vickers will surely take its place with the major creations of Sinclair Lewis. . . . Ann Vickers [is] one of his most fully realized characters; further than that, she is the most deeply studied of all the women in his work, beyond all doubt the best drawn of any."—New York Times

New York Times