Sinclair Lewis : Main Street (1920)
中文翻譯
大街 先信譯，香港：今日世界出版社，1976 封面設計：蔡浩泉
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楊歷樵（白華）譯：大街（二冊，大公報）
潘式（鳧公）：人海微瀾（二冊）
潘式（鳧公）：隱刑
英文：
 First edition | |
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace and Howe |
Publication date | 1920 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback), and audiobook |
| Pages | 448 pages |
| ISBN | 1420930923 |
Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920.
Satirizing small town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book, and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of its residents. Highly acclaimed upon publication, Main Street remains a recognized American classic.
由於今日世界出版社版只印小說部分，梁實秋先生作一篇扎記，收入《梁實秋扎記》台北：時報出版，1978，pp.91~95：〈大街 〉
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Sinclair Lewis : Main Street (1920)
第22章 (CHAPTER XXII)末段：
“I don't care! I won't endure it! They lie so--Vida and Will and Aunt
Bessie--they tell me I ought to be satisfied with Hugh and a good home
and planting seven nasturtiums in a station garden! I am I! When I die
the world will be annihilated, as far as I'm concerned. I am I! I'm not
content to leave the sea and the ivory towers to others. I want them for
me! Damn Vida! Damn all of them! Do they think they can make me believe
that a display of potatoes at Howland & Gould's is enough beauty and
strangeness?”
The Oxford English Dictionary defines an ivory tower as “a state of privileged seclusion or separation from the facts and practicalities of the real world”; the Merriam-Webster as “a secluded place that affords the means of treating practical issues with an impractical often escapist attitude.”