 | Sinclair Lewis - 1920 - 472 Seiten
...or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. i« Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford...Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable... | |
 | Sinclair Lewis - 1920 - 472 Seiten
...or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina l MmtJStreet is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car...Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 730 Seiten
...Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. " Main Street," says Mr. Sinclair Lewis, " is the climax or civilisation . That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon...invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. . . . Such is our comfortable tradition and sure faith." And he writes to show that there is something... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 730 Seiten
...Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. " Main Street," says Mr. Sinclair Lewis, " is the climax of civilisation. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon...invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. . . . Such is our comfortable tradition and sure faith." And he writes to show that there is something... | |
 | 1966 - 662 Seiten
...he himself expressed it in the foreword to "Main Street" : "Main Street is the climax of existence. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon...invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters." The heirs of New England and the Old South ought to chuckle over Lewis' relentless goadings of what... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 Seiten
...famous. The book's much-quoted and once much' admired prefatory note set the tone for a decade's writing: Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this...Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable... | |
 | Neil Harris - 1990 - 470 Seiten
...the ironic relationship between the town culture he was examining and the course of human history. "Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this...invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters." 38 The theme that Fitzgerald would imply in Tender is the Night was here stated more baldly. Carol... | |
 | Neil Harris - 1990 - 470 Seiten
...the ironic relationship between the town culture he was examining and the course of human history. "Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this...Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters."38 The theme that Fitzgerald would imply in Tender is the Night was here stated more baldly.... | |
 | Sinclair Lewis - 1995 - 456 Seiten
...Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this...invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Olejenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable... | |
 | Mark Richardson - 1997 - 296 Seiten
...him to respond to Lewis's sardonic preface to Main Street, which drily declares small-town America "the climax of civilization." "That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store," Lewis writes, "Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jensen the grocer... | |
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Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider. 
