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Arrowsmith

By: Sinclair Lewis
Narrated by: John McDonough
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The son of a country doctor, Sinclair Lewis turned to writing instead of medicine. He won the Nobel Prize in 1930. Arrowsmith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. This is the story of a brilliant young man who dedicates his life to science, yet finds that corruption, not disease, is his greatest foe. Martin Arrowsmith is fascinated by science and medicine. As a boy, he immerses himself in Gray's Anatomy. In medical school, he soaks up knowledge from his mentor, a renowned bacteriologist. But soon he is urged to focus on politics and promotions rather than his research. Even as Martin progresses from doctor to public health official and noted pathologist, he still yearns to devote his time to pure science. Published in 1924, this novel had a profound effect on the reading public. As an expose of professional greed and fraud, it was a call to scrutinize flawed medical practices. Now, through John McDonough's vibrant narration, it is a truly notable audiobook.(P)2001 Recorded Books, LLC

Accolades & Awards

Pulitzer Prize
1926
Classics Genre Fiction Medical Pulitzer Prize Science Medicine & Health Care Industry History & Commentary
Compelling Narrative • Rich Historical Context • Complex Moral Dilemmas • Thought-provoking Themes • Beautiful Reading Pace

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It's no coincidence that Ayn Rand read many of Sinclair Lewis's novels, especially Arrowsmith. The theme of Arrowsmith is staying true to oneself, to one's very soul. Unlike Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, Martin Arrowsmith has not achieved the certainty of Roark, yet he fights throughout the book to not be a second-hander (to use Rand's term). He succeeds, but it takes the length of the book to find out for sure.

Wonderful book!

Precursor to Rand's The Fountainhead

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An interesting subplot is developement of bacteriophage, now almost forgotten, but one day again therapeutically important.

story of a dedicated scientist

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Book: In general, I do not comment on classics. However, I found the story interesting since it draws from the history in the US from 100 years ago: Pre-WWI, midwest, industrialization of the economy, the movement of most of the population from the farm to the city, etc - all the changes - economic, political, social, etc. I liked it but if you were looking for fast moving book, this is not it. However, if want to see changes in personalities and slices of social groups, it is interesting with great wording and character development. I sure it won the Noble Prize for Literature for its social-political aspect, in part, but it is a very good piece of literature.

Performance: The reader was very good. In time, I forgot there was reader and toward the end of the book the reader acted some of the characters well out.

Arrowsmith - The Classic Book, Not the Band

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I enjoyed this story so much that I want to do it all over again. I really felt like jumping up snd down sometimes, but that was when he was young mostly, and he was rather selfish and I wanted to shake him. Going to the Indies made the whole book.

Fantastic

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This is a great book and I recommend it to anyone.I also quite like the narration. my only issue with this recording is that it contains several points where audio is either missing or garbled by some kind of processing error. probably no more than 20 seconds of audio are missing from the book overall, but it is still annoying.

Great book, but some audio errors in this reading

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