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Dodsworth (en Inglés)
Sinclair Lewis (Autor)
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Dodsworth (en Inglés) - Sinclair Lewis
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A second honeymoon becomes a test of whether a marriage can survive two sharply different ideas of freedom. Samuel Dodsworth, a successful American automobile executive, leaves the industrial world of Zenith for an extended European journey with his wife, Fran. He expects renewed companionship; she seeks escape from domestic routine, social distinction and a more cultivated life. Their conflicting expectations expose the distance between shared travel and shared purpose. Beyond the marital drama lies a pointed satire of manners, attentive to the codes by which class, taste and belonging are judged. Sam is assured when dealing with work and industrial modernity, yet uncertain among unfamiliar customs and cultural ideals. His practical identity as an automobile pioneer sits uneasily beside traditions that prize leisure, refinement and inherited social confidence. The contrast gives this marriage novel its distinctive tension: movement across borders cannot settle questions of identity, ambition or ageing. Europe becomes more than a destination as expatriate life places private dissatisfaction within a wider contest between American enterprise and established tradition. The novel examines separation without reducing it to a single quarrel, and social ambition without detaching it from the intimate pressures of marriage. Its journey narrative brings work, leisure and personal reinvention into close contact, asking what remains when professional certainty no longer provides direction. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
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