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Esta novela, considerada una de las obras maestras de la narrativa norteamericana del siglo XX, recibió en 1926 el premio Pulitzer.Como hijo y nieto de médicos, Sinclair Lewis tenía gran cantidad de conocimientos...

"Eso no puede pasar aquí" es una sátira política en la que se describe la América rural y provinciana que surge tras el crac bursátil de 1929. Los personajes y los hechos que se relatan en la novela son...

Sinclair Lewis, Premio Nobel de Literatura 1930, es el autor de algunas de las mejores novelas americanas del siglo xx. Babbitt es posiblemente su mejor trabajo y está considerado como uno de los libros...

La novela que creó un nuevo arquetipo en la literatura estadounidense y le valió a su autor el Premio Nobel de Literatura. En esta novela imprescindible de la narrativa estadounidense del siglo xx, Sinclair...

Babbitt es una crítica mordaz de la sociedad estadounidense de principios del siglo XX, escrita por Sinclair Lewis. La novela retrata la vida de George F. Babbitt, un agente inmobiliario de clase media...

SINOPSISEsta novela, considerada una de las obras maestras de la narrativa norteamericana del siglo XX, recibió en 1926 el premio Pulitzer. Como hijo y nieto de médicos, Sinclair Lewis tenía gran cantidad...

Por el ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura, un relato incisivo sobre un hombre apasionado por la ciencia en una sociedad hipócrita y oportunista.En esta novela ganadora del Premio Pulitzer en 1926...

La novela que creó un nuevo arquetipo en la literatura estadounidense y le valió a su autor el Premio Nobel de Literatura.En esta novela imprescindible de la narrativa estadounidense del siglo xx, Sinclair...

LOS MEJORES TIMADORES, LADRONES, GRANUJAS Y RUFIANES DE LA ÉPOCA DE SHERLOCK HOLMES, REUNIDOS EN UN SOLO VOLUMEN. GRANT ALLEN, GUY BOOTHBY, E. W. HORNUNG, ROBERT BARR, ARNOLD BENNETT, WILLIAM LE QUEUX,...

Babbitt, first published in 1922, is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure toward...

This classic by Sinclair Lewis shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire. “Main Street” attacks the conformity and dullness of early 20th century midwestern village...

Ann Vickers is a product of the twentieth century–a woman, fearless and dauntless, who set out to do things–to whom it mattered not that convention and tradition had to be defied. A career, success, fame,...

Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked...

Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's...

Published in 1925, Arrowsmith is the story of Martin Arrowsmith, a gifted scientist making his way from a small Midwestern town to the apex of the scientific community. Arrowsmith follows the titular...

“The Job” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Job is an early work by American novelist...

From H.L. Crowe comes their blasphemous debut, DELIVER US TO EVIL.Woodheart, North Carolina is home to a Catholic Church like no other; it runs and operates like Vatican City with the eponymous Father...

One look was all it took to set this heart of stone ablaze. HeatI'm the president of the Kings of Anarchy MC: Virginia Charter. My reputation for being who I am and taking no shit from anyone all while...

He's a man who has never seen his reflection, she's a woman who has never needed anything other than a good book. Join Joseph and Moira as they travel Europe through intrigue, suspense, and the people...

They say the lake answers when the moon burns blue.In the shadowed water of Llyn Du, hydrologist Talise Calder comes searching for scientific truth—and finds a man shaped from water, memory, and an ancient...

The night they ran, the world went quiet in a way that felt unforgiving.By morning, sixteen-year-old Eli Moreno and his sisters—Maria and little Lila—are standing in the wreckage of one desperate choice:...

When the Crown fell silent, the world did not end.It began to listen.In the aftermath of a fracture that reshaped continents and tore open living dungeons across the land, the city of Vael'Tir stands...

When a mysterious spacecraft crashes off the Florida coast, blocked novelist Kirk Hunter expects headlines—not the injured young woman he and his golden retriever discover hiding in the woods. Renie doesn't...

Tucked in the lucrative Silicon Hills of Austin, Texas, Olivia St. George thrives as a master of illusions—charming wealthy men who pay handsomely for her company, all while safeguarding her heart against...

For a year, she has been a ghost haunting the mud of the Lowlands. They whisper her name in the taverns and the market squares: Cheveux-Sang. The Girl with the Blood-Hair. A reaper with a bone-grip falchion...

Evanna's mundane life is abruptly shattered when her childhood home burns down, taking her mother with it. Left to survive on her own, she is sent to an orphanage in a neighboring town, forced to navigate...

The most dangerous threat to a retired Dungeon Boss wasn't a hero wielding a sword. It was the infuriatingly optimistic apothecary elf next door who believed her bakery needed a little more chaos.Hazel...

I was supposed to let the beast die.Instead, I saved him.The creature I drag from the snow isn't human. He's a dragon shifter — an Alpha — and when he opens his eyes, he doesn't thank me. He looks at...

ATLASI once had her on her knees.Gun to her head. Finger on the trigger.And I let her live.That mistake carved itself into me—followed me all the way to the throne.Because now I'm the Don. And mercy like...

Journey through the sprawling, philosophical, and deeply personal musings of a literary titan observing a nation in profound transition. From intimate reflections on nature and devastating firsthand accounts...

"What else could I do to settle my turbulent feelings for Jay and Lily, in the wake of their star-crossed dreams, but write it all down?"After a friend's mother dies, one last party is thrown to celebrate...

Moments in Time — a stirring anthology that proves that even the smallest moments can change the course of an entire life. This collection of four evocative short stories blends drama, fantasy, adventure,...

A love cursed by fate…A bond that refuses to break.After the heartbreaking events of Season One, everything changes.Love is no longer just a feeling—it becomes a sacrifice written in destiny.Secrets begin...

MIKAYLAMost brides walk down the aisle. I ran.Straight out of the church, barefoot, dress in my fists, freedom in sight...And directly into the bumper of a very expensive car.The man behind the wheel...

The Sovereign Republic of Beatrice has one citizen too many.Alistair is the "Scullery Sage"—a man capable of solving differential equations but deemed unqualified to operate a toaster by his own mother....

Zalea and Milla Wood know little about the world outside their tribe's land-hold. In school they learned about the troubled Old Times, when bad leaders wreaked havoc on the nation, but that was before...

Wren is a very small bird with a very big dream: to sing her own special aria for the Queen and the Royal Court. But to achieve it, she must travel a long way, across a vast ocean, through a dense jungle,...

A man spends his life searching for truth — only to discover something within himself he cannot accept.

In a parallel universe, under the hammer fist of evil colonialism, a native people are uprooted from their homelands, taken into captivity, and relocated to a life of submission and cruelty.  Separated...

Eliza Bell can face down a requisition officer, deliver a foal at three in the morning, and run an estate stripped bare by war without once raising her voice. She cannot, for the life of her, tell a man...

The Salt Between Us is a coastal novel about love, ambition, and moral fracture set in a village threatened by both rising tides.

They killed her family to break her…but a woman like her is not easily broken. A borrowed badge. A hidden identity.And a man she should never trust. Lainee James should be mourning. Instead, she rides...

Dallas is drowning.A hurricane has flooded the streets. A casino runs on soul-debt. A platform called TRAGIX lets citizens bet on real crimes in real time, payouts cascading as bodies drop. The city's...

A glorious vision is Gloucester harbor, whether seen under the radiant sun of a clear June morning or through the haze and smoke of a mellow October afternoon. Gloucester town lies on a range of hills...

Some years ago I, the editor, was stopping with a friend, "vir doctissimus et amicus neus," at a certain University, which for the purposes of this history we will call Cambridge, and was one day much...

In old times, when voyages were longer than in these days of steam, a nautical frolic on crossing "the Line" helped to break the monotony of many a tedious passage. This time-honoured custom is slowly...