Arrowsmith — Lewis, Sinclair
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Arrowsmith

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Summary

"Arrowsmith" by Sinclair Lewis is a novel published in 1925. It follows Martin Arrowsmith, a scientifically minded young man from small-town Midwest, as he navigates his tumultuous journey through medical school and research to the elite scientific community of New York. Along the way, he faces romantic entanglements, ethical dilemmas, and conflicting ambitions. When a plague outbreak tests his principles, Arrowsmith must choose between rigorous scientific method and saving lives, confronting the tensions between idealism, ambition, and the realities of medical practice. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Subjects (11)
  • Category: Novels
  • Category: American Literature
  • Physicians -- Fiction
  • Nobel Prizes in Literature
  • PS
  • Category: Health & Medicine
  • Satire
  • Medical fiction
  • Medical ethics -- Fiction
  • Medicine -- Practice -- Fiction
  • Medicine -- Research -- Fiction

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