Originally this novel was supposed to chronicle the life of Joseph K. Pumphrey, a professor of business English and friend to the eventual main character.
Originally this novel was supposed to chronicle the life of Joseph K. Pumphrey, a professor of business English and friend to the eventual main character. At the end of the novel, the title character's son Ted elopes with his neighbor's daughter. The title character also has an affair with the widow Tanis Judique and joins her Bohemian circle of friends in an effort to remove himself from his conformist middle-class life. FTP, name this Sinclair Lewis novel about a middle-class realtor in the fictional city of Zenith.
Originally this novel was supposed to chronicle the life of Joseph K. Pumphrey, a professor of business English and friend to the eventual main character.
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