The Job: An American Novel

Sinclair Lewis

Jan 1917 · Cosimo Classics

About this ebook

"We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all." -Sinclair Lewis, The JobIn his novel The Job (1917) Sinclair Lewis vividly describes the world of work for women in the early years of the twentieth century. The novel was one of Lewis's first successes, praised as a groundbreaking work for having a woman as the lead character, as well as for providing insights into the lives of working women. While it was only the third book the author wrote in his own name, it established Lewis as a foremost author of novels about social realism.

About the author

(HARRY) SINCLAIR LEWIS (1885-1951) was the first American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature. Both a novelist and a playwright, he was especially gifted with an ability to write political and social satire, and the characters he created, such as Babbitt, have become synonymous with the value systems they portrayed. Besides Babbitt (1922), some of Lewis's other landmark books include Arrowsmith (1925) and Elmer Gantry (1927 ).