Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man

Sinclair Lewis

• Publisher: Gregg Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473372498
• Print ISBN:
  9781444637106

"Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man" is a 1914 novel by Sinclair Lewis - the first to be published under his real name. Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer and playwright. In 1930 he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Mr. Wrenn" was an immediate success, with reviewers citing its whimsicality - 'a story of the ordinary, serving as an antidote to modern weariness'. It tells the tale of Mr. Wrenn, an employee of a novelty company, who quits his job after inheriting a fortune from his father. From this point onwards, he decides to go travelling. Many antiquarian texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Table of contents

• OUR MR. WRENN
• Sinclair Lewis
• CHAPTER I. MR. WRENN IS LONELY
• CHAPTER II. HE WALKS WITH MISS THERESA
• CHAPTER III. HE STARTS FOR THE LAND OF ELSEWHERE
• CHAPTER IV. HE BECOMES THE GREAT LITTLE BILL WRENN
• CHAPTER V. HE FINDS MUCH QUAINT ENGLISH FLAVOR
• CHAPTER VI. HE IS AN ORPHAN
• CHAPTER VII. HE MEETS A TEMPERAMENT
• CHAPTER VIII. HE TIFFINS
• CHAPTER IX. HE ENCOUNTERS THE INTELLECTUALS
• CHAPTER X. HE GOES A-GIPSYING
• CHAPTER XI. HE BUYS AN ORANGE TIE
• CHAPTER XII. HE DISCOVERS AMERICA
• CHAPTER XIII. HE IS “OUR MR. WRENN”
• CHAPTER XIV. HE ENTERS SOCIETY
• CHAPTER XV. HE STUDIES FIVE HUNDRED, SAVOUIR FAIRE, AND LOTSA-SNAP OFFICE MOTTOES
• CHAPTER XVI. HE BECOMES MILDLY RELIGIOUS AND HIGHLY LITERARY
• CHAPTER XVII. HE IS BLOWN BY THE WHIRLWIND
• CHAPTER XVIII. AND FOLLOWS A WANDERING FLAME THROUGH PERILOUS SEAS
• CHAPTER XIX. TO A HAPPY SHORE