The Job

by Sinclair Lewis

Overview

CAPTAIN LEW GOLDEN would have saved any foreign observer a great deal of trouble in studying America. He was an almost perfect type of the petty small-town middle-class lawyer. He lived in Panama, Pennsylvania. He had never been "captain" of anything except the Crescent Volunteer Fire Company, but he owned the title because he collected rents, wrote insurance, and meddled with lawsuits.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781517756406
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/24/2015
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.22(d)

About the Author

Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), the first writer from the US to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, released his first serious novels from 1914, including 1917’s The Job. Main Street (1920) and Babbitt (1922) earned him stellar success. His satirizing of American capitalism and politics, and his modern female characters, make him a writer to be valued.

James M. Hutchisson, Emeritus Professor of English at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, is the author of The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, editor of Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism, and Past President of The Sinclair Lewis Society. His most recent book is Ernest Hemingway: A New Life.

Ruth Robbins (Series Foreword) is Professor of English Literature and Director of Research for Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University. She has published widely on both feminism and the literature of the period 1870–1940. Her books include Literary Feminisms, Pater to Forster, 1873–1924, Subjectivity, Oscar Wilde and The British Short Story. She is currently working on Virginia Woolf: A Writer’s Life.

Editorial Reviews

Sinclair Lewis's "first distinguished work of fiction."—James D. Hart, Oxford Companion to American Literature

Oxford Companion to American Literature - James D. Hart

"Lewis was consciously exploring [in The Job] the choices and pressures that women felt personally and socially during the first third of the twentieth century. And, yes, this fictional exploration still has relevance emotionally and politically because the choices for and pressures on women have not been significantly modified."—Nan Bauer Maglin, Massachusetts Review

Massachusetts Review

"Sane, generous, well-balanced, above all real, [the novel] interprets by presenting this world as it is."—New York Times

New York Times

"Sinclair Lewis has one attribute of genius—sympathetic insight. . . . He has not only made a woman who works for her living the central figure of his story, he has insisted on doing so without sentimentality or melodrama or false pathos."—New Republic

New Republic

Sinclair Lewis's "first distinguished work of fiction."—James D. Hart, Oxford Companion to American Literature

— James D. Hart

Oxford Companion to American Literature