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Elmer Gantry is a 1927 satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis 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.
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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.
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2024年1月3日 · "Elmer Gantry" by Sinclair Lewis is a novel written in the late 1920s. The book delves into the life of the titular character, Elmer Gantry, a young man navigating the complexities of religious zeal, ambition, and personal vices in a morally constrained society.
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2007年12月4日 · ‘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.
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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.
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Book Review: Elmer Gantry (1927) by Sinclair Lewis
2022年8月3日 · In the novel, Elmer Gantry is a wayward simpleton. He drinks heavily and womanizes while serving as football captain at Terwillinger College alongside his best friend and college roommate, Jim Lefferts, a freethinker who pushes Gantry to read the likes of …
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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