Elmer Gantry - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Heald (Narrator) This audiobook, read by Anthony Heald, is the Winner of the 2009 Audie® Award for Best Literary Fiction. Elmer Gantry is the portrait of a silver-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church, yet lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence. — The title character starts out as a greedy, shallow, phil... more »andering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes the leader of a large Methodist congregation. Throughout the novel, Gantry encounters fellow religious hypocrites. Although often exposed as a fraud, Gantry is never fully discredited.
Elmer Gantry is considered a landmark in American literature and one of the most penetrating studies of hypocrisy in modern literature. The novel also represents the evangelistic religious activity and the attitudes of Americans in the 1920s toward it. When Elmer Gantry was published in 1927, it created a public furor. The book was banned in Boston and other cities, and there were threats of physical violence against the author.
Unabridged - 13 CDs - 16 hours - read by Tony-nominated and Obie Award-winning actor Anthony Heald« less