![]() ![]() In nearby Alexandria it was banned the Sauk Centre Herald kept editorial silence for five months before noting in its edition of March 13, 1921: "A perusal of the book makes it possible for one to picture in his mind's eyes local characters having been injected bodily into the story." Claffey writes: Main Street at first evoked wrath in this town and its environs. ![]() In his article from the Boston Globe, “Dropping by Main Street 60 Years Later,” Charles E. ![]() The novel is set in Gopher Prairie, roughly based on Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s hometown. In the first six months of 1921, it sold 180,000 copies. Lewis felt it would sell 10,000 copies, and his publisher predicted a run of 20,000 would be adequate. Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street, published in 1920, was not expected to be a commercial success. ![]()
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