The lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, caught between her desires for
social reform and individual happiness, reflects the position in which Americas
turn-of-the-century emancipated woman found herself.

Published in 1920, Main Street was Sinclair Lewis first really successful novel. An allegory
of exile and return, Main Street attacks the complacency and ingrown mores of those who
resist change, who are under the illusion that they have chosen their tradition. Maxwell Geismar
lauded this work as a remarkable diary of the middle-class mind in America.

A most searching and excellent piece of work; a feather in the cap of literature."
John Galsworthy