Free Air

by Lewis, Sinclair

• ISBN13: 9780486821573
• ISBN10: 0486821579
• Edition: Unabridged
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-04-18
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Wealthy young socialite Claire Boltwood sets out with her father on a journey from Minneapolis to Seattle in a 70-horsepower Gomez-Dep roadster, one of the finest cars of the post-World War I era. For Milt Daggett, small-town mechanic and garage owner, a glimpse of their vehicle is as exciting as a comet to an astronomer. He's even more astonished by Claire, whose elegance and self-possessed manner inspire him to join the Boltwoods in their trek. It's a long way to the Pacific Northwest, but the greatest distance to surmount will be the class divide between Claire and Milt.
One of the earliest road trip novels, Free Air first appeared in 1919, just before Sinclair Lewis became famous with the publication of Main Street. His romantic tale of adventure in the days before interstate highways recaptures the lure of the American West and the exciting new freedom of the early days of the automobile.

Author Biography

Novelist, short story writer, and playwright Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) was a native of Sauk Center, Wisconsin, and intimately acquainted with the small towns of the American heartland. In 1930 he became the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Table of Contents

I. Miss Boltwood of Brooklyn is Lost in the Mud

II. Claire Escapes from Respectability

III. A Young Man in a Raincoat

IV. A Room Without

V. Release Brakes--Shift to Third

VI. The Land of Billowong Clouds

VII. The Great American Frying Pan

VIII. The Discovery of Canned Shrimps and Hesperides

IX. The Man with Agate Eyes

X. The Curious Incident of the Gresat Highway

XI. Sagebrush Tourists of the Great Highway

XII. The Wonders of Nature with all Modern Improvements

XIII. Adventurers by Firelight

XIV. The Beast of the Corral

XV. The Black Day of the Voyage

XVI. The Spectacles of Authority

XVII. The Vagabond in Greens

XVIII. The Fallacy of Romance

XIX. The Nightn of vEndless Pines

XX. The Free Woman

XXI. The Mine of Lost Souls.

XXII. Across the Roof of the World

XXIII. The Grael in a Back Yard in Yakima

XXIV. Her Own People

XXV. The Abyssinian Prince

XXVI. A Class in Engineering and Omelets

XXVII. The Viciousness oif Nice Things

XXVIII. The Morning Coat of Mr. Hudson B. Riggs

XXIX.The cEnemy Love

XXX. The Virtuous Plotters

XXXI. The Kitchen Intimate

XXXII. The Cornfield Aristocrat

XXXIII. Tooth-Mug-Tea

XXXIV. The Beginning of a Story