Martin arrowsmith, of pioneer descent and unflagging spirit, begins his medical training by reading grays anatomy at the age of fourteen in the office of doc vickerson, of elk mills. Sinclair lewis audio books, best sellers, author bio. Arrowsmith was awarded the pulitzer prize for literature. Born february 7, 1885, in the village of sauk centre, minnesota, sinclair lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. As a bright, curious boy in a small midwestern town, martin arrowsmith spends his free time in old doc vickersons office avidly devouring medical texts. Pastores list, a guide to films based on works of sinclair lewis, which appears in the sinclair lewis society newsletter spring 1998.
You may order a copy now and it will be shipped to you when the reprint has arrived. Published in 1925, after three years of anticipation, the book follows the life of martin arrowsmith, a rather ordinary fellow who gets his first taste of medicine at 14 as an assistant to the drunken physician in his home town. Doctorowthe pulitzer prizewinning novel of one mans pursuit of intellectual freedom in the face of ignorance and corruption, from the author of babbit arrowsmith, the most widely read of sinclair lewis s novels, is the incisive portrait of a man passionately devoted to science. As a bright, curious boy in a small midwestern town, martin arrowsmith spends his free. This was followed by the two novels considered by many to be his finest, babbitt 1922 and arrowsmith 1925, which was awarded the pulitzer prize in 1926, but declined by lewis. Arrowsmith is a novel by american author sinclair lewis, first published in 1925.
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Martin arrowsmith is fascinated by science and medicine. Sinclair lewis won the pulitzer prize for arrowsmith in 1926. The books explores medical and scientific themes in a fictional way and it is difficult to think of an earlier book that does this. Sinclair lewis s arrowsmith was something of a break through novel. In the woman who changed her brain, barbara arrowsmithyoung offers her own story, and those of her students, to refute that conventional wisdom. Yet, even with some personal exposure, its amazing how much of the idealism and cynicism, evident in modern physician practice, lewis portrays in his 1926 pulitizer prize winning book, arrowsmith. His college career was interrupted by various parttime occupations, including a period working at the helicon home colony, upton sinclairs socialist experiment in new jersey.
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