{"product_id":"the-man-who-knew-collidge","title":"The Man Who Knew Collidge","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. First edition. Publisher's full blue cloth, blocked and ruled in orange. 275. No dust jacket, lightest edge-wear, previous owner inscription in pen on front pastedown, still a fine copy lacking only its dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSinclair Lewis was the first American author to win the Nobel Prize in literature, which was awarded \"for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.\" In his Nobel Lecture, Lewis praised Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and other contemporaries, but also lamented that \"in America most of us -- not readers alone, but even writers -- are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues,\" and that America is \"the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"hit-highlight\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Mr. Lewis has exceeded his satirical genius in this parody of an average man.\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Sauk Centre Herald\u003c\/em\u003e, April 19, 1928). This book introduces the character Lowell Schmaltz who recounts a story in six long, uninterrupted monologues. It, while staying true to Lewis' acclaimed satirical prose, is written lighter than his earlier works like Babbitt, of which Lowell Schmaltz is a friend of the Babbitt character. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNCIAL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59654849823006,"sku":"UN-0004","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1082\/2094\/0574\/files\/PANA2806.jpg?v=1785273891","url":"https:\/\/uncialrarebooks.com\/products\/the-man-who-knew-collidge","provider":"UNCIAL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}