BookSense
Free Air

Free Air

by Sinclair Lewis

First published 1919 · 240 pages · about 4 hours to read

Buy on Amazon

Also as Kindle · AudiobookRead free on Project Gutenberg · Find in a library

About this book

Free Air heads toward a West that was brimming with possibilities for suddenly mobile Americans at the end of a world war. The vehicle in Lewis's novel, not a Model T but a Gomez-Dep roadster, takes Claire Boltwood and her father from Minnesota to Seattle, exposing them all to the perils of early motoring.

Books like Free Air

Quotes

  • “When the windshield was closed it became so filmed with rain that Claire fancied she was piloting a drowned car in dim spaces under the sea. When it was open, drops jabbed into her eyes and chilled her cheeks. She was excited and thoroughly miserable.”
    Chapter I
  • “But the Gomez-Dep roadster had seventy horsepower, and sang songs. Since she had left Minneapolis nothing had passed her.”
    Chapter I
  • “It is compounded of gratitude at having got safely in; of perception of a new town, yet with all eagerness about new things dulled by weariness; of hope that there is going to be a good hotel, but small expectation--and absolutely no probability--that there really will be one.”
    Chapter IV
  • “If there was a girl in the dream she was intangible as the scent of the night. Presently he was asleep, a not at all romantic figure, rather ludicrously tipped to one side in his office chair, his large solid shoes up on the desk.”
    Chapter V
  • “Unconsciously Claire had hesitated before dashing at each sharp upsloping bend; had lost headway while she was wondering, "Suppose the car went off this curve?" Milt never sped up, but he never slackened. His driving was as rhythmical as music.”
    Chapter XX

Passages chosen with AI from the book's public-domain text on Project Gutenberg.

More by Sinclair Lewis

Books by Sinclair Lewis →