Babbitt
$31.39
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2002
Summary
In the fall of 1920, Sinclair Lewis began a novel set in a fast-growing city with the heart and mind of a small town. For the center of his cutting satire of American business he created the bustling, shallow, and myopic George F. Babbitt, the epitome of middle-class mediocrity. The novel cemented Lewis’s prominence as a social commentator.
Babbitt basks in his pedestrian success and the popularity it has brought him. He demands high moral standards from those around him while flirtin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375759253 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375759255 |
| Author: | Sinclair Lewis, Richard Lingeman |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2002 |
| Weight: | 387g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 134mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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”[It is] by its hardness, its efficiency, its compactness that Mr. Lewis’s work excels.“-Virginia Woolf
“[It is] by its hardness, its efficiency, its compactness that Mr. Lewis’s work excels.”—Virginia Woolf
About The Author
Sinclair Lewis
Richard Lingeman is a senior editor of The Nation. He is the author of Small Town America, a biography of Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis- Rebel from Main Street.
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