在二十世纪群星璀璨的美国文坛上,辛克莱·刘易士是享有盛名的小说家。在他一生创作的二十多部作品中,不仅揭露和讽刺了本世纪上半叶美国资本主义社会的种种丑恶现实,而且在创作技巧上也充分显示出 Sinclair Lewis is a celebrated novelist in the brightly lit American literary world of the twentieth century. In more than 20 works created in his life, he not only exposed and satirized the ugly reality of American capitalist society in the first half of this century, but also fully demonstrated his creative skills