<ul> <li>This edition includes the following editor&#39;s introduction:<i> </i><i>Sinclair Lewis, a controversial Nobel Laureate in Literature</i></li></ul><br />First published in 1925, &quot;Arrowsmith&rdquo; is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis that won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined with a scathing written response). The book was adapted by Hollywood as <i>Arrowsmith</i> in 1931.<br /><br />&ldquo;Arrowsmith&rdquo; takes place in the fictional town of Elk Mills, Winnemac &ndash; the same fictional town and state that figure in several of Lewis&#39;s other novels. The novel follows the life of Martin Arrowsmith, a Midwestern physician. Disheartened successively by rural practice, the state of public health care, and the elitism of an urban clinic, Martin accepts a research position at an institute in New York that leads him, along with his wife, Leora, a nurse, to an epidemic-ravaged island...<br /><br />&quot;Arrowsmith&rdquo; is often described as the first <i>scientific</i> novel considering it explores medical and scientific themes in a fictional way and it is difficult to think of an earlier book that does this.