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Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the religious activity of the United States in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it.
Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be "invited" to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia.
Jan 3, 2024 · Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Aug 13, 2023 · ‘Elmer Gantry’ is a story of hubris and greed but also a metaphor for clawing out of poverty by exploiting your neighbor’s naïveté. On his last spiritual legs, Gantry is discovered by a big shot Bishop of the Methodist church in the state capital of Zenith.
Dec 4, 2007 · ‘Elmer Gantry’ was Sinclair Lewis’ eleventh novel, published in 1927 shortly before winning the 1930 Nobel Prize. Lewis begins with Gantry enrolled in a Kansas Baptist college in 1902. He is the football team captain, a tall handsome bully who hates piety and admires drunkenness and profanity.
Elmer Gantry, novel by Sinclair Lewis, a satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion that caused an uproar upon its publication in 1927. The title character of Elmer Gantry starts out as a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes the leader of a.
Sinclair Lewis’ world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring ʼ20s. Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry...
Dec 4, 2007 · Elmer Gantry. Sinclair Lewis’ world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring ʼ20s. Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry...
Elmer Gantry. Today universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be "invited" to a jail...
May 13, 2023 · One of the most savage satirical assaults against institutionalized religion and its hypocrisy in American literature, Elmer Gantry continues to be a window into a particularly...
