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Babbitt : A Classic Satire of American Business and Conformity - Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

A Classic Satire of American Business and Conformity

By: Sinclair Lewis

Paperback | 6 January 2012

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Sinclair Lewis's incisive portrait of American middle-class conformity in the early twentieth century.

Published in 1922, Babbitt follows George F. Babbitt, a prosperous real estate broker in the fictional Midwestern city of Zenith. Comfortable, respectable, and eager for social approval, Babbitt embodies the boosterism and commercial optimism of postwar America. Yet beneath his public enthusiasm lies dissatisfaction-an uneasy awareness of spiritual emptiness within a culture devoted to salesmanship, status, and routine success.

Through satire sharpened by psychological insight, Lewis exposes the tensions between individuality and conformity, ambition and authenticity. The novel remains one of the defining critiques of American business culture and small-city respectability, securing Lewis's reputation as the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Babbitt endures as a landmark of twentieth-century social fiction.

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