Elmer Gantry Book Review. In particular, elmer gantry is a perfect study of hypocrisy and rationalization in action. The adaptation felt a bit too restrained in its expose.
Morgan), shirley jones (lulu bains), patti page (sister rachel), ed andrews (george f. No doubt at the time elmer gantry was published, many people thought that religious faith, at least of the variety that believed in the divine inspiration of the bible, would gradually die out. There’s an old maxim declaring, “napoleon is the limit of a madman”;
That said, it's still an entertaining.
That said, it's still an entertaining. Elmer gantry (signet classics) by sinclair lewis. 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. It might have been supposed that lewis’s form of “sociological realism,” in which he wove innumerable details from contemporary life into his narrative,.