Dodsworth

Name: Dodsworth
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Sinclair Lewis
ISBN: 9781433241741

Author: Sinclair Lewis

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 13 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2008

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Meet Sam Dodsworth, an amiable fiftyyearold millionaire and American Captain of Industry, believing in the Republican Party, high tariffs, and, so long as they did not annoy him personally, in Prohibition and the Episcopal Church. Dodsworth runs an auto manufacturing firm, but his beautiful wife Fran, obsessed with the notion that she is growing old, persuades him to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. He agrees for the sake of their marriage, but before long, the pretensions of the cosmopolitan scene prove more enticing to Fran than her husband. Both a devastating, surprisingly contemporary portrait of a marriage falling apart and a grand tour of the Europe of a bygone era, Dodsworth is stamped with Sinclair Lewis signature satire, wickedly observant of Americas foibles, and great fun.

About Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first American novelist to be so honored. Born in Minnesota, he attended Yale University but left before graduation to work in Upton Sinclair's socialist colony at Helicon Hall in Englewood, New Jersey. Unable to make a living as a freelance writer, he returned to Yale and earned his degree. In 1914, he published his first novel, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man. But it was not until his sixth novel, Main Street, that he won recognition as an important American novelist. His other major works include Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth, and It Can't Happen Here, which he also wrote as a play. Lewis was a prolific writer, publishing dozens of books and innumerable articles throughout his career.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

”Oh...I suppose America terrifies me. I feel insecure there. I feel everybody watching me, and criticizing me unless I’m buzzing about Doing Something Important--uplifting the cinema or studying Einstein or winning bridge championships or breeding Schnauzers or something. And there’s no privacy, and......more

Goodreads review by Christopher

Sinclair Lewis's final masterpiece of the 1920s, Dodsworth is about a middle-aged American businessman who's persuaded to travel to Europe by his worldly wife. Sam Dodsworth starts as a complacent businessman with no greater thoughts outside of his business and his hometown; after spending time in L......more