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Dodsworth

By: Sinclair Lewis
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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Meet Sam Dodsworth, an amiable 50-year-old millionaire and "American Captain of Industry, believing in the Republican Party, high tariffs, and, so long as they did not annoy him personally, in Prohibition and the Episcopal Church". Dodsworth runs an auto manufacturing firm, but his beautiful wife, Fran, obsessed with the notion that she is growing old, persuades him to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. He agrees for the sake of their marriage, but before long, the pretensions of the cosmopolitan scene prove more enticing to Fran than her husband.

Both a devastating, surprisingly contemporary portrait of a marriage falling apart and a grand tour of the Europe of a bygone era, Dodsworth is stamped with Sinclair Lewis' signature satire, which is wickedly observant of America's foibles - and great fun.

©1935 Harcourt Brace and Company, Inc. (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classics Witty
Wonderful Story • Well-written Novel • Wonderful Character Voices • Complex Protagonist • Great Book • Interesting Novel

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The narrator's voice was a little distracting at first when he read the females dialog. ...but I soon grew accustomed to it.
Once again, the book was far better than the film.

Excellent

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Well performed. Solid story of another era. Part travelogue as well. Wealthy industrialist discovering the vacuity of his marriage and finding a new lease on life.

Dodsworth Is Worth the Listen

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Good performance of a great book. Also fun to compare with the screenplay, if you're familiar with the brilliant 1936 movie that was based on both the novel and the play. It proves that all three can be both excellent and different from each other.

Great Book!

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A wonderful story that updates the tradition of travel satires about Americans in Europe - but now for the 1920s as only Lewis can describe it.

1920s satire in Europe

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As an audiobook product, the product is excellent. The narration by Grover Gardner is very professional. I liked the novel, but the subject matter may be more or less interesting to an individual reader as explained below.

"Dodsworth" is a very well written and interesting novel authored by Sinclair Lewis. It is set in America and Europe in the late 1920s. Samuel Dodsworth is a middle age American family man and travels abroad with his wife. There are many characterizations about the differences in American and European Cultures. There are also some "mid life crisis" issues, although that term is not used. As is common of the era, there are numerous references to ethnicity that are now considered offensive.

The novel is really interesting to me. There is a certain time capsule element to the novel as it is both written and set between the two World Wars. Obviously Sinclair Lewis cannot know what is coming in a few years.

I am reading Sinclair Lewis novels in order of publication. Each novel stands on its own. However there are some vestiges of previous novels within this one. As an example is the city of Zenith in the United States.

I liked this novel a lot. I can imagine it not appealing to the taste of every reader. I enjoy Sinclair Lewis novels and read one very several months. Thank You....

A Very Good Novel About 1920s America and Europe

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