书名：Elmer Gantry 孽海痴魂
作者：Sinclair Lewis辛克莱·刘易斯
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2007
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780451530752
商品尺寸：10.6 x3 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：496 （以实物为准）

Elmer Gantry《孽海痴魂》是美国首位诺贝尔文学奖获得者辛克莱·刘易斯的作品，讲述的是一个推销员变身为传教士的故事：在美国二十年代兴起的信仰复兴运动中，落魄潦倒的推销员甘特里无意中发现自己具有传教的天赋，为了追到复兴运动里的一个美女，也为了摆脱经济上的窘境，他欣然加入到这场运动中。从推销到传教，从凡人到“圣徒”，从沦陷到救赎，甘特里几经周折、回到原点，却经历了人生中深刻的思想变化。
1960年上映的同名电影由理查德·布鲁克斯执导，伯特·兰卡斯特等主演。电影获第33届奥斯卡金像奖zui佳影片提名，主演伯特·兰卡斯特获得zui佳男主角，雪莉·琼斯获zui佳女配角。 
本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由Jason Stevens作序。内容完整无删减，书本小巧便携。

Sinclair Lewis’ world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring?20s.
 
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. 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. Elmer Gantry has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.
 
With an introduction by Jason Stevens

莎朗·法康纳修女在巡回传导时碰到投机取巧分子艾尔默·甘特里，被他说动一起拍档赚大钱。莎朗修女不久便如愿建立海边的大教堂，并且情不自禁爱上艾尔默，但他却爱上每一个能够跟他上床的女人，并且毫不留情地将她们抛弃。牧师的女儿露露为了对艾尔默的劣行加以报复，特别找记者拍摄他的床上照登在报上。莎朗与艾尔默的大批信徒因而离弃他们，但两人仍然有行走江湖的能耐……

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。
Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and graduated from Yale University in 1908. His college career was interrupted by various part-time occupations, including a period working at the Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair’s socialist experiment in New Jersey. He worked for some years as a free lance editor and journalist, during which time he published several minor novels. But with the publication of Main Street (1920), which sold half a million copies, he achieved wide recognition. This was followed by the two novels considered by many to be his finest, Babbitt (1922) and Arrowsmith (1925), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, but declined by Lewis. In 1930, following Elmer Gantry (1927) and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for distinction in world literature. This was the apogee of his literary career, and in the period from Ann Vickers (1933) to the posthumously published World So Wide (1951) Lewis wrote ten novels that reveal the progressive decline of his creative powers. From Main Street to Stockholm, a collection of his letters, was published in 1952, and The Man from Main Street, a collection of essays, in 1953. During his last years Sinclair Lewis wandered extensively in Europe, and after his death in Rome in 1951 his ashes were returned to his birthplace.