Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry

<b>Sinclair Lewis’ world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring ʼ20s.</b><br>  <br> Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, <i>Elmer Gantry </i>scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be “invited” to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church—a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence—is also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no trace of itself. <i>Elmer Gantry </i>has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.<br>  <br> <b>With an introduction by Jason Stevens</b>