Here are some of the most powerful and enchanting works by this renowned Southern author, contrasting grace and old-world charm with a new generation.

Four novels set in the 1930's explore the tragic and comic aspects of the South.

In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. These remarkable novels combine brilliant satire with a lingering affection for the men and women who, as Lewis wrote of Babbitt, want "to seize something more than motor cars and a house before it's too late." Main Street (1920), Lewis's first triumph,...