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...few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the 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....

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...y Sinclair Lewis A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...tate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Sinclair Lewis Main Street by Sinclair Lewis To James Branch Cabell and Joseph Hergesheimer THI... ...thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider. Our railway station is the final aspiration of architec- ture. Sam Clark’s annual hardw... ... enormous imitation-leather satchel from under a seat and waddled out. The station agent hoisted a dead calf aboard the baggage-car. There were no oth... ...rary-looking, as a mining-camp street in the motion-pictures. The railroad station was a one- room frame box, a mirey cattle-pen on one side and a cri... ...rying-pan and ash- stippled coffee-pot on the shelf behind the pot-bellied cannon-ball stove, backwoods chairs—one constructed from half a barrel, one...

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...tments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street....

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...n elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street. “Mr. Coverdale,” said he softly, “can I speak with you a moment?” A... ...dual furnace— heat. But towards noon there had come snow, driven along the street by a northeasterly blast, and whitening the roofs and sidewalks with... ...identally delayed, and set forth at a later hour alone. As we threaded the streets, I remember how the buildings on either side seemed to press too cl... ...ost of these utterances were like the cry of some solitary sentinel, whose station was on the outposts of the advance guard of human progression; or s... ...epetition of obstreperous music, wind ing up with the rattle of imitative cannon and musketry, and a huge final explosion. Then ensued the applause o... ... side door, saluted the spectators, not with a salaam, but a bow, took his station at the desk, and first blowing his nose with a white handkerchief, ... ...ooking on with an aspect of serene indifference. “The roar of a battery of cannon would be in audible to the Veiled Lady. And yet, were I to will it,...

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...occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladies of Arthur?s Court when they were reduced to the ordeal of the mantle....

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...t I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladies of Arthur’s Court when they were reduced to the or... ... holds that it does not con- duce to making merry: you might as well carry cannon on a racing-yacht. Morality is a duenna to be circumvented. This was... ... in their likeness. Whether the puppet show of Punch and Judy inspires our street-urchins to have instant recourse to their fists in a dispute, after ... ...ess perfectly sound on account of the sparkle: and Comedy lifts women to a station offering them free play for their wit, as they usually show it, whe... ... now pouring forth on us like public foun- tains would be cut short in the street and left blinking, dumb as pillar-posts, with letters thrust into th...

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...: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Sermon, 51 -- 10 A Bosom Friend, 59 -- 11 Nightgown, 63 -- 12 Biographical, 65 -- 13 Wheelbarrow, 68 -- 14 Nantucket, 72 -- 15 Chowder, 74 -- 16 The Ship, 77 -- 17 T...

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...kfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 6 The Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 7 The C... ...poor devil of a Sub Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales ... ...a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it hi... ...e breakfast?” “He’s cracked, Queequeg,” said I, “come on.” “Holloa!” cried stationary Elijah, hailing us when we had removed a few paces. “Never mind ... ..., and the crew sprang for the handspikes. Now, in getting under weigh, the station generally occupied by the pilot is the forward part of the ship. An... ... it, of the ivory heel. Ah! Stubb, thou did’st not know Ahab then. “Am I a cannon ball, Stubb,” said Ahab, “that thou wouldst wad me that fash ion? B... ...nk Whale; the Pudding Headed Whale; the Cape Whale; the Leading Whale; the Cannon Whale; the Scragg Whale; the Coppered Whale; the Elephant Whale; the... ... stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost his strength, Ah... ... of mowers. Seen from the mast heads, especially when they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms looked more like lifeless ma...

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...th must repeat to-day our dreams and wanderings of so many years ago; he will relish the pleasure, which should have been ours, to follow among named streets and numbered houses the country walks of David Balfour, to identify Dean, and Silvermills, and Broughton, and Hope Park, and Pilrig, and poor old Lochend -- if it still be standing, and the Figgate Whins -- if there b...

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...; he will relish the plea- sure, which should have been ours, to follow among named streets and numbered houses the country walks of David Balfour, to... ... the rest lingering with their firelocks by the door. There can nothing pass in the streets of a city without some following of idle folk and children... ...re reason to pursue my common practice, since I had met this young lady in the city street, seemingly following a prisoner, and accompanied with two v... ...made memorable by a consequence it had long after. There was a warship at this time stationed in the Firth, the Seahorse, Captain Palliser. It chanced... ...r. Macintosh.’ O, it’s been a scandal! “The great Agyle he gaed before, He gart the cannons and guns to roar,” and the very macer cried ‘Cruachan!’ Bu... ...guests; and altogether made more of than I thought accorded either with my parts or station; so that, 131 Catriona on strangers being present, I woul... ...rself.” And at that I kneeled fairly down. “There!” she cried. “There is the proper station, there is where I have been manoeuvring to bring you.” And...

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...the afternoon of a warm day in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-looking building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the attacks of hosts of winged foes, too well-behaved to express their annoyance otherwise than by twitchings of their sleek shining skins, but duly grateful...

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...in front of the painted toy-look- ing building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the att... ... up from the book which she held in her hand to examine the clock over the station door, compare it with her watch, and study the countenances of the ... ...panting of the engine was heard, the train displayed its length before the station, men ran along tapping the doors of the carriages, and shouting a w... ...ietta came to this serious conclusion, they en- tered the steep straggling street of the little town of Rocksand, and presently were within the gates ... ...ng distinguished about her. I should look twice at her if I met her in the street, and expect her to get into a carriage with a coronet. And then and ... ... Sutton itself, which Henrietta had not yet seen. It was a long straggling street, the cottages for the most part in gardens, and with a general look ... ... hand, and an en- treaty that he might go with Queen Bee and Fred to buy a cannon for the little ships, of which Roger’s return always produced a whol... ... to delight the very heart of Willy by a present of a pair of little brass cannon, on which his long- ing eyes had often before been fixed, and they t...

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...declare war? comes on, you hear hoarse Hawkers sound dolefully through the streets, “Grand Treason of Count Mirabeau, price only one sou;”—because he ... ...by land and water. Of sol- diers, at Nanci, as we shall see, needing to be cannonaded by a brave Bouille. Of sailors, nay the very galley-slaves, at B... ...ille. Of sailors, nay the very galley-slaves, at Brest, needing also to be cannonaded; but with no Bouille to do it. For indeed, to say it in a word, ... ...ette, by and by Anaxagoras Chaumette, one already descries: mellifluous in street-groups; not now a sea-boy on the high and giddy mast: a mellifluous ... ...a thunder of ‘rolling drums,’ with shouts that rend the welkin. And on all streets the glad people, with moisture and fire in their eyes, ‘spontaneous... ...do spadework; and will! On the first July Monday, scarcely has the signal- cannon boomed; scarcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand lai... ... double quick pas-de-charge, or unmili- tary running; to get the start; to station themselves on the outer staircase, and stand there with what of dea... ...lean gone, in what way we see. Over night, an Aide-de-Camp of Lafayette’s, stationed here for such emergency, sends swift emissaries far and wide, to ... ...th their main columns, which are filing out by the appointed Gates, taking station in the open meadows. National Guards are in a state of nearly distr...

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...omen and children have learnt, and sing chorally, in Theatres, Boulevards, Streets; and the heart burns in every bosom: Aux Armes! Marchons!—Or think ... ...rt; how Bertrand-Moleville lies hidden in some garret ‘in Aubry-le-boucher Street, with a poor surgeon who had known me;’ Dame de Stael has secreted h... ...or melting into balls. All Church-bells must down into the furnace to make cannon; all Church-plate into the mint to make money. Also behold the fair ... ...re it but of invention. One Citoyen has wrought out the scheme of a wooden cannon; which France shall exclusively profit by, in the first instance. It... ...n hours: we, scattered sparse on the ramparts, 17 Thomas Carlyle hardly a cannoneer to two guns; our dastard Commandant Lavergne no where shewing fac... ...a Tricolor Commissioner with his blue Guards (black-guards!) arriving. All Streets are vacant, says Peltier; beset by Guards at each end: all Citizens... ...enty: he was old Marshal Maille, of the Tuileries and August Tenth). ‘They stationed me in a corner; my guards crossed their sabres on my breast. I lo... ...g mail-bags, tocsin peals out again! Generale is beating; armed men taking station in the Place Vendome and elsewhere for the night; supplied with pro... ...stand by while the Guillo- tine devours their children: a band of music is stationed near; and, at the fall of every head, strikes up its ca-ira. (Les...

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...he upper windows of the houses as the people went to bed. From the railway station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing and rum-... ...ine them, covered with sand, excited and disordered, running up the little street in the bright sunlight just as the shop folks were taking down their... ...droom win- 12 The War of the Worlds dows. Henderson went into the railway station at once, in order to telegraph the news to London. The newspaper ar... ...ree loafers and golf caddies who were accustomed to hang about the railway station. There 13 H G Wells was very little talking. Few of the common peo... ..., stu- dents sat over their books. Maybe there was a murmur in the village streets, a novel and dominant topic in the public-houses, and here and ther... ...ng thunder- storm mingled there with masses of black and red smoke. Ripley Street was deserted, and except for a lighted win- dow or so the village sh... ... guns on the Richmond and Kingston line of hills began, there was a fitful cannonade far away in the southwest, due, I believe, to guns being fired ha... ...All the railway lines north of the Thames and the South- Eastern people at Cannon Street had been warned by mid- night on Sunday, and trains were bein...

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...; carts and waggons clattered to and fro; the narrow, up hill, funnel like streets across the River, were so many dense perspectives of crowd and bust... ...ick; bump, jolt, crack, bump, crick crack; round the corner, up the narrow street, down the paved hill on the other side; in the gutter; bump, bump; j... ...k; crack, crack, crack; into the shop windows on the left hand side of the street, preliminary to a sweeping turn into the wooden archway on the right... ...ry inch of which is elaborately painted, but which is as dirty as a police station in London), a hook nosed Saracen’s Head with an immense quantity of... ...ity gate, on the Albara road, is a small house, with an altar in it, and a stationary money box: also for the benefit of the souls in Purgatory . Stil... ...at the procession; and I saw no more of the Frenchman until we took up our station in the main street to see it pass, when he squeezed himself into a ... ...; the dash and fury of their speed along the echoing street; nay, the very cannon that are fired—these noises are nothing to the roar ing of the mult... ... clapping of their hands. But it is soon over—almost instantaneously. More cannon shake the town. The horses have plunged into the carpets put across ... ...ich they are pursued, go on until the same hour. The race is repeated; the cannon are fired; the shouting and clapping of hands are renewed; the canno...

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...ld became the first burial ground in Boston. When you pass through Tremont Street, along by King’s Chapel, you see a burial ground, containing many o... ...re some ship’s guns,” said he, the moment he had drawn breath, “some great cannon, among the rocks, near where the shrub was growing.” No sooner had h... ... any interference of the king. But henceforth the governor was to hold his station solely by the king’s appointment and during his pleasure; and the s... ... and drilling of soldiers, there was now nothing but warlike bustle in the streets of Boston. The 66 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sChair drum and fif... ...Cotton Mather took his staff and three cor nered hat and walked about the streets, calling at the houses of all the physicians in Boston. They were a... ...edly it was a grievance,” answered Grandfather, “to see men placed in this station who perhaps had neither talents nor virtues to fit them for it, and... ...on of the king, they thought it necessary to preserve the dignity of their station by the practice of high and gorgeous ceremonials. And, besides, the... ...eight and strength, and were defended by hun 79 Hawthorne dreds of heavy cannon. It was the strongest fortress which the French possessed in America... ... as if by magic spell, the governor hoped to get possession of all the old cannon, powder and balls, rusty swords and muskets, and everything else tha...

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...xes are baking in layers. As a country traveller, I am rarely to be found in a gig, and am never to be encoun- tered by a pleasure train, waiting on t... ...and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my rooms in Covent-garden, Lo... ... abundant mud of that thoroughfare, and greatly enjoying the huge piles of building belonging to the sugar refiners, the little masts and vanes in sma... ... opinion as to what he would recommend to be done with himself. Long before I reached Wapping, I gave myself up as hav- ing lost my way, and, abandoni... ... make it answer. In a word, those streets looked so dull, and, considered as theatrical streets, so broken and bankrupt, that the Found Dead on the bl... ...this Theatre was fresh, cool, and wholesome. To help towards this end, very sensible precautions had been used, ingeniously combining the experience o... ...like giants smoking tobacco; and the great Shears moored off it, looking meekly and inoffensively out of proportion, like the Giraffe of the machinery... ...t the Stairs, where a drift of chips and weed had been trying to land before me and had not succeeded, but had got into a corner instead, I found the ... ...r, I may assume that every reader of your columns, possessing average information and intelligence, knows as well as I do that’—say that the draught f...

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...ch of the forbidden mosaic, we had sweated up several most steep and dusty streets—hot and dusty, although it was but nine o’clock in the morning. The... ...the most part, in which white-jacketed clerks sat smoking easy cigars. The streets were plastered with placards of a bull-fight, to take place the nex... ...ble, and almost all excellently sleek and handsome, were pacing down every street:here and there, but later in the day, came clattering along a smart ... ...raltar Bay is shining on the other, out on which from the terraces immense cannon are perpetually looking, surrounded by plantations of cannon-balls a... .... Fatigue-parties are seen winding up the hill, and busy about the endless cannon- ball plantations; awkward squads are drilling in the open spaces:se... ...mes quite romantic:it is too dark to see the dust on the dried leaves; the cannon-balls do not intrude too much, but have subsided into the shade; the... ...ardens which spring up all of a sudden at its edge. Y ou can see the first Station-house on the Suez Road; and so from distance- point to point, could...

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...es, it is half alive and half a monumental marble. There are armed men and cannon in the citadel overhead; you may see the troops marshalled on the hi... ... what was once the scene of imperial delibera- tions. Close by in the High Street perhaps the trumpets may sound about the stroke of noon; and you see... ...nsympathetic by-standers. The grooms of a well- appointed circus tread the streets with a better presence. And yet these are the Heralds and Pursuivan... ...nwhile every hour the bell of the University rings out over the hum of the streets, and every hour a double tide of students, coming and going, fills ... ...es embedded among streets and squares. The tunnel to the Scot- land Street Station, the sight of the trains shooting out of its dark maw with the two ... ...w changes on the face of this earth, with which I explored such corners as Cannonmills or Water Lane, or the nugget of cottages at Broughton Mar- ket.... ...n the high facades. Moving lights of the railway pass and repass below the stationary lights upon the bridge. Lights burn in the jail. Lights burn hig... ...s it before a candle; not the darkest night of winter can conceal her high station and fanciful design; every evening in the year she proceeds to illu... ...and quarrelsome, the votaries of the New Year go meandering in and out and cannoning one against an- other; and now and again, one falls and lies as h...

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...h an automatic motion, and went off without a word. Passepartout heard the street door shut once; it was his new master going out. He heard it shut ag... ...nds were in gold, and weighed him down. Master and man then descended, the street-door was double-locked, and at the end of Saville Row they took a ca... ...cab and drove rapidly to Charing Cross. The cab stopped before the railway station at twenty minutes past eight. Passepartout jumped off the box and f... ...ollowed his master, who, after pay- ing the cabman, was about to enter the station, when a poor beggar-woman, with a child in her arms, her naked feet... ...kets for Paris having been speedily pur- chased, Mr. Fogg was crossing the station to the train, when he perceived his five friends of the Reform. “We... ...e usual quota of shirts and shoes, he took a leisurely promenade about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities—Europeans, Persians w... ...h a desperate jerk. “Signal her!” said Phileas Fogg quietly. A small brass cannon stood on the forward deck of the Tankadere, for making signals in th...

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...pears on the paddle box with his speaking trumpet; the officers take their stations; all hands are on the alert; the flagging hopes of the passengers ... ...spect of favourite places dearly loved; and even people them with shadows. Streets, houses, rooms; figures so like their usual occupants, that they ha... ...oint being commanded by a strong fortress, not yet quite finished. Several streets of good breadth and ap pearance extend from its summit to the wate... ...nce extend from its summit to the water side, and are intersected by cross streets running parallel with the river. The houses are chiefly of wood. Th... ...eans: so that supposing the prisoners locked up in their cells, an officer stationed on the ground, with his back to the wall, has half their number u... ...t with a cheerful deportment and an exact discharge of the duties of their station, which, indeed, it scrupulously required of them; and secondly, by ... ... a student poring on a book; now a crouching negro; now, a horse, a dog, a cannon, an armed man; a hunch back throwing off his cloak and stepping fort...

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...ea with his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain glimmer of th... ...besides Mr. Rogers and Mr. Brimer, succeeded. ‘Mr. Rogers, on gaining this station, was so nearly ex hausted, that had his exertions been protracted ... ... ascend. They could yet discern some part of the ship, and in their dreary station solaced themselves with the hopes of its remaining entire until day... ...ubscription balls in the Assembly Rooms of our watering place now, red hot cannon balls are less improb able. Sometimes, a misguided wanderer of a Ve... ...ce her name was entered, and withdrawn it when she was mar ried. Down the street, there is a toy ship of considerable burden, in the same condition. ... ... this be mere coincidence? J. M.’ You would hardly guess which is the main street of our watering place, but you may know it by its being always stopp... ...ly across a narrow thoroughfare, you may be quite sure you are in our High Street. Our Police you may know by his uniform, likewise by his never on an...

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...f going to be confined, which certainly turned out true, but it was in the Station-house. Number Eighty-one Norfolk Street, Strand—situated mid- way b... ...urned out true, but it was in the Station-house. Number Eighty-one Norfolk Street, Strand—situated mid- way between the City and St. James’s, and with... ... never have found Number Eighty-one Nor- 4 Mrs. Lirriper’ s Lodgings folk Street Strand advertised in Bradshaw’s Railway Guide, and with the blessing... ... free in a rosy-faced way (I think no worse of him) with every girl in the street but was quite frozen up like the statue at Charing-cross by her, saw... ...d wait on the upper landing for what might happen, and never was gunpowder cannon-balls or shells or rock- ets more dreaded than that dreadful letter ... ...ys “Blessings on you sir where is the Darling!” and he says “In Kennington Station House.” I was dropping at his feet Stone at the image of that Innoc... ...ake a good hug of this young scholar.” Upon which Jemmy calls out from his station on the chair, “Gran oo open oor arms and me’ll make a ‘pring into ‘...

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...as then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer’s morning; the streets empty, or pretty nearly so; one or two clerks sitting in front of... ... empty, or pretty nearly so; one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water Street stores, with their splint bottomed chairs tilted back against the ... ...itizen; he would refer casually to occasions when he “was coming down Fourth Street,” or when he was “passing by the Planter’s House,” or when there w... ...waving his hat or a flag, and all roaring a mighty chorus, while the parting cannons boom and the multitudinous spectators swing their hats and huzza!... ... fog and repairing machinery. The R. E. Lee was commanded by Captain John W. Cannon, and the Natchez was in charge of that veteran Southern boatman, C... ...not suffered from the assaults of the scientists. “AFTERNOON. At the railway stations the loafers carry both hands in their breeches pockets; it was ... ...ry, it would be still more important, of course. “Heretofore, all along, the station loafer has been often observed to scratch one shin with the other... ...d landed on the floor, and staid there. The balls came booming around. Three cannon balls went through the chim ney; one ball took off the corner of ... ...the river lay vacant and undisturbed; no rush and turmoil around the railway station, no struggling over bewildered swarms of passengers by noisy mobs...

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...got to the end of a bottle, when a rattling of wheels came up the nar row street, and rumbled into the inn yard. He set down his glass untouched. “Th... ...The Wine shop A LARGE CASK OF WINE had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had... ... to run to the spot and drink the wine. The rough, irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly... ...hat to the oldest of men as they passed in to Tellson’s, Jerry took up his station on this windy March morning, with young Jerry standing by him, when... ...ements made by his own mind we all make such arrangements, more or less he stationed Miss Pross much nearer to the lower Angels than many ladies immea... ...privileges; a new philosophy has become the mode; and the assertion of our station, in these days, might (I do not go so far as to say would, but migh... ...ance, should be melted into A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 170 thundering cannon; when the military drums should be beat ing to drown a wretched voi... ... Deep ditches, double drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke. Through the fire and through the smoke in ... ... the smoke in the fire and in the smoke, for the sea cast him up against a cannon, and on the instant he became a cannonier Defarge of the wine shop w...