Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
344 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 142640607X
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Language: English
Publish: July 12, 2006
20th CenturyAmericanClassic LiteratureClassicsFictionHistorical FictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNobel PrizeNovels
Babbitt is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930.