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Besides Babbitt, Lewis's best novels include Main Street (1920), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), and Dodsworth (1929), all works published during the middle span of his career. All are continuations of his satire of middle- class attitudes as mirrored in Arrowsmith, a physician; Gantry, a clergyman; and Dodsworth, a businessman; and it was upon the basis of these novels that Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Of the later novels, several have a special interest. It Can't Happen Here (1935) finds Lewis imagining that "it" can —...
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