Free Air (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Sinclair Lewis

Overview

In this paean to the democratizing effects of the automobile, published in 1919, Brooklyn railroad heiress Claire Boltwood motors from Minnesota to a vacation with cousins in Seattle. After down-to-earth auto mechanic Milt Daggett rescues her vehicle from a mud hole, she gradually begins to change her snobbish ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411441101
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	08/30/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	380
File size:	331 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was the first writer from the United States to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1930. His novels, strongly critical of American society and capitalism include Babbitt, Main Street, Elmer Gantry, and Arrowsmith. His portrait appeared on a 14-cent U.S. Postal Service postage stamp in 1985, honored as a Great American.