The Job

by Sinclair Lewis · 1917

A determined young woman builds a business career in New York, in an early realist novel of women and work.

Books mentioned in The Job (9)

• Snow-Bound by John Greenleaf Whittier: “an argument as to whether Longfellow or Whittier was the better poet, by parroting the whole of "Snow Bound"”
• Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle: “listed among library books: "Home Needlework, Sartor Resartus, and Ships that Pass in the Night"”
• The People of the Abyss by Jack London: “The book was The People of the Abyss, by Jack London, which Mamie Magen had given to Una”
• Enoch Arden by Alfred Tennyson: “ladies who "gave readings" of Enoch Arden and Evangeline before the Panama Study Circle”
• Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “ladies who "gave readings" of Enoch Arden and Evangeline before the Panama Study Circle”
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray: “Una had nibbled at Shakespeare, Tennyson, Longfellow, and Vanity Fair in her high-school days”
• Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving: “excursionists up the Hudson to the storied hills of Rip Van Winkle”
• Ships That Pass in the Night by Beatrice Harraden: “listed among library books: "Sartor Resartus, and Ships that Pass in the Night"”
• The Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore: “give me one of the good old songs like 'The Last Rose of Summer'”