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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)
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Fiction
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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