Carol Milford, a college girl full of ideas about town planning and little theatres, marries Dr. Will Kennicott and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Its single main street, its gossiping women’s clubs and its contented merchants resist every one of her improvements, and the novel follows her years of rebellion, compromise and escape attempts.
Lewis’s 1920 breakthrough, a sharp and surprisingly sympathetic study of small-town America and the woman who could not fit it. Download the free EPUB.