Elmer Gantry (1960) - Sinclair Lewis
Category: Classic
Narrator: Anthony Heard
Tags: Classic, General Fiction, Adults
Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins Release date: 03-06-08 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc., Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be invited to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his churcha saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgenceis also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no trace of itself. Elmer Gantry has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire, The title character 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. Althou
