书名：Arrowsmith 阿罗史密斯
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1160L
作者：Sinclair Lewis辛克莱·刘易斯
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2008
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780451530868
商品尺寸：10.6 x3.2 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：480 （以实物为准）

Arrowsmith《阿罗史密斯》是美国首位诺贝尔文学奖获得者辛克莱·刘易斯的作品，也是美国首部以医学科研工作者为主题并获得巨大成功的小说。作者热情地歌颂了医学家阿罗史密斯的科学理想主义精神，也对医学领域里实用主义至上的名利思想进行了辛辣的讽刺和批判。小说通过对社会细致入微的观察，描摹了20世纪20年代的美国人的生存现状，用辛辣的讽刺披露了当时美国社会的种种弊端。
《阿罗史密斯》被公认为刘易斯杰出的一部讽刺小说，小说通过刻画主人公马丁·阿罗史密斯，揭露与批判了当时正风行美国的实用主义、功利主义、金钱至上等。
本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由Sally E. Parry作序，E.L. Doctorow写后记。内容完整无删减，书本小巧便携。

With an afterword by E. L. Doctorow—the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of one man’s pursuit of intellectual freedom in the face of ignorance and corruption, from the author of Babbit

Arrowsmith, the most widely read of Sinclair Lewis’s novels, is the incisive portrait of a man passionately devoted to science. As a bright, curious boy in a small Midwestern town, Martin Arrowsmith spends his free time in old Doc Vickerson’s office avidly devouring medical texts. Destined to become a physician and a researcher, he discovers that societal forces of ignorance, greed, and corruption can be as life-threatening as the plague. 

Part satire, part morality tale, Lewis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel illuminates the mystery and power of science while giving enduring life to a singular American hero’s struggle for integrity and intellectual freedom in a small-minded world.

With an Introduction by Sally E. Parry 
and an Afterword by E. L. Doctorow

辛克莱·刘易斯（Sinclair Lewis，1885~1951），美国作家、剧作家，1885年出生于明尼苏达州的索克中心镇，1951年病逝于意大利首都罗马。刘易斯一生创作20多部作品。1920年他以《大街》一举成名后，又推出《巴比特》（1922）和《阿罗史密斯》（1925）。这三部作品被认为是他的优秀之作，其中《阿罗史密斯》曾获1926年普利策文学奖，《巴比特》获1930年诺贝尔文学奖。

Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the son of a country doctor. After graduating from Yale in 1907, he went to New York, tried freelance work for a time, and then worked in a variety of editorial positions from the East Coast to California. Main Street (1920) was his first successful novel. In the decade that followed, Lewis published four other acclaimed novels of social criticism—Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), and Dodsworth (1929). In 1930 he became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He continued to write both novels and plays for another two decades, publishing his last work, World So Wide (1951), shortly before his death in Rome.

Sally E. Parry is Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and Director of General Education at Illinois State University. She is currently the Executive Director of the Sinclair Lewis Society and editor of the Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter. She has edited two collections of short stories by Sinclair Lewis, Go East, Young Man: Sinclair Lewis on Class in America (2005) and The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis (2005), and with Robert L. McLaughlin, written We’ll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II (2006). 

E. L. Doctorow is one of America’s preeminent men of letters. His novels include The Waterworks, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, Lives of the Poets, Billy Bathgate, and Welcome to Hard Times. His work has garnered the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the William Dean Howells medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.