Babbitt
first publication date: 1922
genre: satire
original title: Babbitt
original language: English
main subject: culture of the United States
narrative location: United States of America
follows: Main Street
followed by: Arrowsmith
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on Gutenberg.org Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, 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. The novel has been filmed twice, once as a silent in 1924 and remade as a talkie in 1934. The word Babbitt has entered the English language as a "person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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8- date of publication: 2021ISBN-13: 978-1-5132-7918-3
- date of publication: 1961-10-01ISBN-13: 978-0-451-52366-2
- date of publication: 2008ISBN-13: 978-1-4264-0607-2
- date of publication: 1998-09-01ISBN-13: 978-0-553-21486-4
- ISBN-13: 978-0-698-19252-2
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