Elmer Gantry HC 1927 by Sinclair Lewis (No Dust Jacket) Harcourt Brace and Compa
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Elmer Gantry Hardcover – 1927
by Sinclair Lewis
Today universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be invited to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church - a saver of souls who lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence - is also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no record of itself. Elmer Gantry has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since Voltaire.
When Elmer Gantry was published, author Sinclair Lewis received death threats, an invitation to be lynched in Virginia, a warning to stay clear of New Hampshire or wind up in a prison cell.
7th printing. Minor wear to cover /minor discoloration to back cover. Writing in pencil thro
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