by Sinclair Lewis · Modern Library · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780375759253
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«Babbitt» is Sinclair Lewis's satirical novel, published by Modern Library in hardcover (432 pages, in English).
George F. Babbitt, a businessman satisfied with his success in a booming American city, embodies conformity. Lewis satirizes the business culture of the 1920s; when his best friend is imprisoned, Babbitt questions his empty life and rebels against social expectations, though breaking the routine is not easy.
Novel originally published in 1922. This Modern Library edition includes an introduction by Richard Lingeman.
Recommended for readers of American classics and twentieth-century social satire.
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).
