Main Street

By: Lewis, Sinclair

Book Excerpt: w plan. She saw herself persuading children to readcharming fairy tales, helping young men to find books on mechanics, being ever so courteous to old men who were hunting for newspapers--thelight of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinners withpoets and explorers, reading a paper to an association of distinguishedscholars.VThe last faculty reception before commencement. In five days they wouldbe in the cyclone of final examinations.The house of the president had been massed with palms suggestive ofpolite undertaking parlors, and in the library, a ten-foot room with aglobe and the portraits of Whittier and Martha Washington, the studentorchestra was playing "Carmen" and "Madame Butterfly." Carol was dizzywith music and the emotions of parting. She saw the palms as a jungle, the pink-shaded electric globes as an opaline haze, and the eye-glassedfaculty as Olympians. She was melancholy at sight of the mousey girlswith whom she had "always intended to get acquainted," anRead Mo

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798718287554
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"