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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at [www.gutenberg.org](www.gutenberg.org)  \nTitle: Main Street  \nAuthor: Sinclair Lewis  \nRelease Date: April 12, 2006 [EBook \\#543]  \nLanguage: English  \nCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1  \n*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAIN STREET ***  \nProduced by Charles Keller and David Widger  \nMAIN STREET  \nBy Sinclair Lewis  \nTo James Branch Cabell and Joseph Hergesheimer  \nContents  \nCHAPTER I  CHAPTER XIV  CHAPTER XXVII  \nCHAPTER II  CHAPTER XV  CHAPTER XXVIII  \nCHAPTER III  CHAPTER XVI  CHAPTER XXIX  \nCHAPTER IV  CHAPTER XVII  CHAPTER XXX  \nCHAPTER V  CHAPTER XVIII  CHAPTER XXXI  \nCHAPTER VI  CHAPTER XIX  CHAPTER XXXII  \nCHAPTER VII  CHAPTER XX  CHAPTER XXXIII  \nCHAPTER VIII  CHAPTER XXI  CHAPTER XXXIV  \nCHAPTER IX  CHAPTER XXII  CHAPTER XXXV  \nCHAPTER X  CHAPTER XXIII  CHAPTER XXXVI  \nCHAPTER XI  CHAPTER XXIV  CHAPTER XXXVII  \nCHAPTER XII  CHAPTER XXV  CHAPTER XXXVIII  \nCHAPTER XIII  CHAPTER XXVI  CHAPTER XXXIX  \nThis is America—a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves.  \nThe town is, in our tale, called \"Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.\" But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would bethe same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills.  \nMain Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of thesea; whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider.  \nOur railway station is the final aspiration of architecture. Sam Clark's annual hardware turnover is the envy of the four counties which constitute God's Country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebud Movie Palace there is a Message, and humor strictly moral.  \nSuch is our comfortable tradition and sure faith. Would he not betray himself an alien cynic who should otherwise portray Main Street, or distress the citizens by speculating whether there may not be other faiths?  \nCHAPTER I  \nI  \nON a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squawsand portages, and the Yankee fur-traders whose shadows were all about her. She was meditating upon walnut fudge, the plays of Brieux, the reasons why heels run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared atthe new coiffure which concealed her ears.  \nA breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheat-lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom. She lifted her arms, she leaned back against the wind, her skirt dipped and flared, a lock blew wild. A girl on a hilltop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life. The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth.  \nIt is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College.  \nThe days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest.  \nII  \nBlodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It is a bulwark of sound religion. It is still combating the recen","cbCaik5ztB8WNQVJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik5ztB8WNQVJ","pdf",2396278,504,"English","# Contents\n## Chapters I-XIV\n## Chapters XV-XXIX\n## Chapters XXVII-XXXIX","[{\"question\":\"What is the setting of Main Street?\",\"answer\":\"The story is centered on an American town called “Gopher Prairie, Minnesota,” presented as representative of Main Streets everywhere. 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