Possibly the best student of hypocrisy since Voltaire
Penguin Classics
December 2007
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Featuring: Elmer Gantry
496 pages ISBN: 0451530756 EAN: 9780451530752 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Novel by Sinclair Lewis, a satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion that caused an uproar upon its publication in 1927. The title character of Elmer Gantry starts out as a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes the leader of a large Methodist congregation. Throughout the novel Gantry encounters fellow religious hypocrites, including Mrs. Evans Riddle, Judson Roberts, and Sharon Falconer, with whom he becomes romantically involved. Although he is often exposed as a fraud, Gantry is never fully discredited.
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