EAN: 9781847499134

ARROWSMITH - SINCLAIR LEWIS TASCHENBUCH

Martin Arrowsmith  a young medical student at the University of Winnemac  is driven by a
sincere passion and a desire to make a positive contribution to the world. But events get in
the way  and a series of personal vicissitudes  love interests and societal pressures threaten
to lead him away from the path of pure science - until he is forced  in the face of a
humanitarian crisis  to decide between scientific rigour and compassion  between maintaining
his medical principles and saving lives.  First published in 1925 to great critical acclaim 
Arrowsmith is the third major novel by Sinclair Lewis  author of Main Street and Babbitt  and
arguably his most ambitious work. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1926 - which the
author famously declined - it contributed to Lewis's growing reputation as a master storyteller
social commentator and the unsurpassed satirist of his time.

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