It Can't Happen Here
Novel
By: Sinclair Lewis
Date: 1935
Source: Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. New York: Doran, 1935, 74–83.
About the Author: American novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) was a 1908 Yale graduate and editor of Yale's Literary Magazine. He began his writing career as a journalist and editor. Though his first five novels failed, he enjoyed success in the 1920s and 1930s with novels chiefly about the middle class. His best-known works include Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and Elmer Gantry. Lewis traveled widely and spent his last days in Europe, where he died.
Introduction
Before It Can't Happen Here, Lewis had written six successful novels. For Arrowsmith, he was offered the Pulitzer Prize for literature but refused it. When he did accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, he chided the American...
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