Front matter
Reading edition
BY
SINCLAIR LEWIS
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
Fourteenth printing, September, 1928
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
QUINN & BODEN COMPANY, INC,
RAHWAY, N. J.
To
H. L. MENCKEN
with profound admiration
No character in this book
is the portrait of any actual
person.
S. L.
E L M E R G A N T R Y