Category: clear and cold and pure and very dead

Babbitt Book quotes clear and cold and pure and very dead December 12 Literature Literature quotes Nobel Prize Pulitzer Prize Sinclair Lewis

“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”

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Robert Deis aka SubtropicBob

In the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis became one of the most successful writers in America. During that decade he penned a series of five hugely popular novels: Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith,…