- Mantrap (novel)
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Mantrap Author(s) Sinclair Lewis Country United States Language English Publisher Harcourt, Brace & Company Publication date 1926 Media type Hardcover Mantrap is a 1926 novel by Sinclair Lewis.
Contents
Plot
The plot concerns Ralph Prescott, a New York City Lawyer and his need to escape the stressful city life.
Reception
TIME said "[T]he book is rather a mediocre feat for the celebrated scorner of average men, literary grace, Pulitzer Prizes. The flaying of E. Wesson Woodbury may spoil a great many people's summer vacations, but far more malice could have been wrought, and more sales made, if the ending had not been so tediously dragged out. After paddling far up the stream of U. S. literature, Mr. Lewis has idly turned his canoe and shot some unexciting rapids."[1]
Adaption
The novel was adapted into the 1926 film of the same name starring Clara Bow, Percy Marmont, Ernest Torrence, Ford Sterling, and Eugene Pallette, and directed by Victor Fleming.
References
Mantrap, by Sinclair Lewis, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1926.
- ^ "NON-FICTION, FICTION: Nicolo, Maffeo, Marco", TIME, June 21, 1926
Books by Sinclair Lewis - Hike and the Aeroplane
- Our Mr. Wrenn
- The Job
- The Innocents
- Free Air
- Main Street
- Babbitt
- Arrowsmith
- Mantrap
- Elmer Gantry
- The Man Who Knew Coolidge
- Dodsworth
- Ann Vickers
- Work of Art
- It Can't Happen Here
- Selected Stories
- The Prodigal Parents
- Bethel Merriday
- Gideon Planish
- Cass Timberlane
- Kingsblood Royal
- The God Seeker
- World So Wide
Categories:- Book stubs
- 1926 novels
- American novels
- Novels by Sinclair Lewis
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