by Sinclair Lewis · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140079630
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«Babbitt» is Sinclair Lewis's satirical novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (304 pages, in English).
The novel follows George F. Babbitt, a prosperous real estate agent in the fictional city of Zenith, who begins to question the orderly, conventional life he has built. With irony, Sinclair Lewis portrays the materialism and social pressure of the American middle class in the 1920s, torn between the desire for independence and the fear of what others might say.
The novel was originally published in 1922; this edition appeared in 1985 in the Penguin Modern Classics series.
Recommended for readers of twentieth-century American classics with an interest in social criticism.
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
