Nobel Prize Winning Literature is Now on Wordwaves
Nobel Prize Award for Sinclair Lewis
The Nobel foundation in conjunction with the The Swedish Academy are responsible for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
‘The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters".’
Discover the characters of Mr Lewis through quotes at http://www.wordwaves.com/
Enjoy the quality of writing from one of America's pre-eminent Writers
Main Street 1920
“ On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky. "
"I want to tell you good people, and it's just as sure as God made little apples, the thing that distinguishes our American commonwealth from the pikers and tin-horns in other countries is our Punch. "
The Innocents 1917
" He saw her send the chauffeur away, and cache her lorgnette, and roll up her sleeves, and simply wade into an orgy of cribbage, with pleasing light refreshments of cider and cakes waiting by the fireplace. "
" Mother was sitting by the wide kitchen table, which was scarred with generations of use of cleaver and bread-knife and steak-pounder.
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