{"product_id":"elmer-gantry","title":"Elmer Gantry","description":"\u003cb\u003eSinclair Lewis’ world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring ʼ20s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, \u003ci\u003eElmer Gantry \u003c\/i\u003escandalized 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. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church—a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence—is also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no trace of itself. \u003ci\u003eElmer Gantry \u003c\/i\u003ehas been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by Jason Stevens\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481593717109,"sku":"9780451530752","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780451530752.jpg?v=1786089871","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/elmer-gantry","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}