Carol draws away from her husband, falls in love with Erik Valborg, a kindred spirit, and finally goes to Washington to make her own life. She finds the village to be a smug, intolerant, unimaginatively standardized place, where the people will not accept her efforts to create more sightly homes, organize a dramatic association, and otherwise improve the village life. Carol Milford, a girl of quick intelligence but no particular talent, after graduation from college meets and marries Will Kennicott, a sober, kindly, unimaginative physician of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, who tells her that the town needs her abilities. First Edition of the book that brought fame to Sinclair Lewis - the first of his five great novels of the 1920s (followed by BABBITT, ARROWSMITH, ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH). Original medium-blue cloth lettered in orange. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.
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