Main Street - Hardcoverby Sinclair Lewis (Author) "It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose." Sinclair Lewis, Main Street Main Street (1920) was Sinclair Lewis's very first novel. Turning a spotlight on the hypocrisy and pettiness of middle America, the novel tells the story of Carol Milford Kennicott and her struggles with the small town mentality of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. With its