''Work of Art'' is a 1934 novel by Sinclair Lewis. The novel's protagonist is Myron Weagle, who aspires to climb the ladder of the American

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industry, and forms a "composite picture" of the hotel/inn/caravanserie landscape of the earth 20th-century. Upon its release, ''

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'' called it "renewed evidence of ewis'vitality", but also of his "essential shortcomings as a truly first-rate creative writer."

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