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Babbitt - (Modern Library Classics) by Sinclair Lewis (Paperback)

Name: Babbitt - (Modern Library Classics) by Sinclair Lewis (Paperback)
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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.
About the Author: Richard Lingeman is a senior editor of The Nation.
432 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
Series Name: Modern Library Classics

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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 flirting with women, and he yearns to have rich friends while shunning those less fortunate than he. But Babbitt's secure complacency is shattered when his best friend is sent to prison, and he struggles to find meaning in his hollow life. He revolts, but finds that his former routine is not so easily thrown over.

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"[It is] by its hardness, its efficiency, its compactness that Mr. Lewis's work excels."--Virginia Woolf

About the Author

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.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 8.06 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W) x .93 Inches (D)

Weight: .68 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 432

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Sub-Genre: Classics

Series Title: Modern Library Classics

Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)

Format: Paperback

Author: Sinclair Lewis

Language: English

Street Date: January 8, 2002

TCIN: 91001628

UPC: 9780375759253

Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-6876

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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