Elmer Gantry (Annotated)

Elmer Gantry is Sinclair Lewis's caustic 1927 novel of American religious commerce, following a swaggering, morally elastic salesman of salvation from college athletics and seminary posturing into the revivalist pulpit. Written in Lewis's brisk satirical realism, the book exposes the theatrical machinery of evangelism, the seductions of power, and the uneasy kinship between spiritual rhetoric and ...