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Captain Lew Golden would have saved any foreign observer a great deal of trouble in studying America. He was an almost perfect type of the petty small-town middle-class lawyer. He lived in Panama, Pennsylvania. He had never been "captain" of anything except the Crescent Volunteer Fire Company, but he owned the title because he collected rents, wrote insurance, and meddled with lawsuits. He carried a quite visible mustache-comb and wore a collar, but no tie. On warm days he appeared on the street in his shirt-sleeves, and discussed the comparative temperatures of the past thirty years with Doctor Smith and the Mansion House 'bus-driver. He never. | 1 Part I 3 Part II 133 Part III 251 Part I p THE CITY CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII Part II p THE OFFICE CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV Part III p MAN AND WOMAN CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII The Job by Sinclair Lewis 2 The Job by Sinclair Lewis The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Job by Sinclair Lewis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Job An American Novel Author Sinclair Lewis Release Date May 15 2008 EBook 25474 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE JOB Produced by K Nordquist Jacqueline Jeremy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project. THE JOB AN AMERICAN NOVEL BY SINCLAIR LEWIS AUTHOR OF MAIN STREET BABBITT ETC. GROSSET DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Made in the United States of America Copyright 1917 by Harper Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published February 1917 TO MY WIFE WHO HAS MADE THE JOB POSSIBLE AND LIFE ITSELF QUITE BEAUTIFULLY IMPROBABLE CONTENTS Page Part I 3 THE CITY 3 Part II 133 Part II 133 THE OFFICE Part III 251 MAN AND WOMAN Part I THE .