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Babbitt
[Paperback - 2015]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Classics
Additional Category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Signet | ISBN: 9780451473714 | Pages: 432
Shipping Weight: .249 | Dimensions: 4.23 x 1.14 x 6.75 inches

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Since the 1922 publication of Babbitt, its eponymous antihero—a prosperous real estate broker and relentless social climber inhabiting a Midwestern town called Zenith—has become a symbol of stultifying values and middle-class hypocrisy. At once a conformist and a rebel, George F. Babbitt represents an ordinary man whose life turns upside down during one of the most profound sea changes in American cultural history: the mechanization and hucksterism of the Roaring Twenties. Babbitt, his family, and his social circle are the very essence of the American Dream in all its glory and emptiness, and their story is a stirring portrait of a way of life in profound flux. Babbitt remains one of Sinclair Lewis’s most widely read novels. Contemptible and touching, frivolous and tragic, Babbitt is a rich, complex character whose legacy carries an eerie resonance to this day.

Includes a new afterword by Azar Nafisi
Introduction by Sally E. Parry 

About the Author

NovelistHarry Sinclair Lewissatirized middle-class America in his 22 works, includingBabbitt(1922) andElmer Gantry(1927) and first received a Nobel Prize for literature in 1930.Middle-class values and materialism attach unthinking George F. Babbitt, the narrow-minded, self-satisfied main character person in the novel of Sinclair Lewis.People awarded "his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."He knowingly, insightfully, and critically viewed capitalism and materialism between the wars. People respect his strong characterizations of modern women.Henry Louis Menckenwrote, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade...it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclai...

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