Arrowsmith

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by Sinclair Lewis Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap Year : 1925 Edition : 1st Thus Condition : Very Good Binding : Hardcover Price : $49.95

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Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. FIRST EDITION, thus - reprint (Issued in conjunction with release of United Artists film starring Ronald Coleman & Helen Hayes.) Classic Lewis novel about a country doctor who rebelled against small town life and rose to fame as a scientist & fighter of the black plague in the West Indies. Overall good condition, green boards, some wear and fading, pages good, very interesting handwritten notes on inside cover, perhaps written by Paul de Kruif, (person to whom book is dedicated) . . . "Paul de Kruif helped to give this info. . . Still alive. His works, Main Street, Babbitt, Dodsworth, Sale Anter( ?) Born in small town did not like it went to Yale disappointed. 'Main Street' very popular. 'Babbitt' a person who has stumbled with success. 'Elmer Gantry' a ministry. Considered by many to Lewis' greatest novel, this story of a medical doctor and researcher was awared the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, which Lewis famously refused to accept, and was the source of the successful John Ford film, a box office and critical success eventually being nominated for four academy awards including best picture. " Martin Arrowsmith fulfills a lifelong dream of becoming a physician with a passion for research. Combating the forces of ignorance and greed, he relentlessly pursues scientific truth, even in the face of his own personal tragedy. ARROWSMITH (1925) was Sinclair Lewis's most praised novel and won him the Pulitzer Prize, which he refused.". 448 pages.

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