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Arrowsmith

by Sinclair Lewis
Lee Smalley
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Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). Lewis was greatly assisted in its preparation by science writer Paul de Kruif, who received 25% of the royalties on sales, although Lewis was listed as the sole author. Arrowsmith is an early major novel dealing with the culture of science. It was written in the period after the reforms of medical education flowing from the Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, which had called on medical schools in the United States to adhere to mainstream science in their teaching and research. The book was adapted by Hollywood as Arrowsmith in 1931, featuring Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay.

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  • Release date

    January 1, 2022

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • File size: 538164 KB
      • Duration: 18:41:10

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This 1924 classic traces the less than satisfying career of a doctor from his college training through his small-town practice, participation in a city health agency, and work in a West Indian clinic, where he hopes to engage in pure science and escape the money-grubbing that has so frustrated him earlier. Following in the footsteps of his more enduring MAIN STREET and BABBIT, Sinclair Lewis won the Pulitzer Prize for the medical novel, but refused it, out of pique, some critics suggest, because he felt he should have won it for the earlier books. ARROWSMITH still makes good listening today, in large measure because of the competence of reader John McDonough. Though he could use a little more drama and more consistent differentiation among the many characters, his style eventually becomes interesting, even compelling, as the novel itself. T. H. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

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