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Babbitt

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By Sinclair Lewis
Publisher Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - (Signet Classics)
Babbitt
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In the fall of 1920, Sinclair Lewis began a novel set in a fastgrowing 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 middleclass mediocrity. The novel cemented Lewiss 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 Babbitts 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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124601 words124,601 words
400 pages400 pages
Lexile 1110LLexile 1110L
Published 1998Published 1998

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9780451527080

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