An idealistic young doctor and researcher is pulled between the corrupting comforts of commercial medicine and the austere demands of real science, culminating in a plague epidemic that tests everything he believes.
Books that mention Arrowsmith (2)
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson: Referenced as one of the novels about scientists that influenced its subjects.
The Art of Fiction by Ayn Rand: “"Take the description of a doctor's office in the first chapter of Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith..." — extensively quoted and analyzed throughout, including a full excerpt ("From Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis").”