Tashkent – 2014 contents introduction

Part of this journey, incidentally, was to be reflected in the novel Free Air.
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In the next dozen years Lewis was frequently in Minnesota and lived
for short periods in different places. The year 1917 saw him residing in St.
Paul, in a lemon-colored brick house on Summit Avenue, and in
Minneapolis. During this Minnesota sojourn, Lewis also visited the Cass
Lake lumber camps and slept in a bunkhouse," Two years later he was back 
in Minneapolis again hard at work on Main Street; the novel was continued
during a summer spent in Mankato and was finished in Washington, where
Lewis' stay was financed in part by a loan from his father.
Kingsblood Royal (1947) is set in the fictional city Grand Republic,
Minnesota, an enlarged and updated version of Zenith. Based on the Sweet Trials 
in Detroit, in which an African-American doctor was denied the chance to 
purchase a house in a "white" section of the city, Kingsblood Royal was a 
powerful and very early contribution to the civil rights movement. The novel 
narrates about the injustice of racial wrong approaches.
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Lewis's next popular novel, Arrowsmith (1925), returned to the form of 
Main Street to portray a young doctor's battle to maintain his dignity in a petty, 
dishonest world. Besides it explores the world of medicine and ethics.The novel 
was the newest in the area of American fiction which is about a medical research 
scientist Martin Arrowsmith. The novel appears when the writer met a young 

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medical researcher Paul de Kruif in the New York Rockefeller Institute. Martin 
Arrowsmith was a highly successful and lucky man in his adminstrativa career.
Like ―Main Street‖ this novel also explores the narrow mindedness, materialism 
and hypocrisy in the medical profession. But unlike the central characters in Main 
Street and  Babbitt , Arrowsmith is intendended to be admired by the readers. 
Inspite of difficulties he finally returns his work as an independent researcher, 
putting marriage to a wealthy woman and a prestigious directorship behind him.
This novel bring critical and commertial success to the author.