Babbitt: (Starbooks Classics Editions)

ISBN-13: 9781499303483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 358 str.

Sinclair Lewis; Akira Graphics

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"Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd."
--- Sinclair Lewis, Babbit
Babbitt, first published in 1922, is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure toward conformity. An immediate and controversial bestseller, Babbitt is one of Lewis's best-known novels and was influential in the decision to award him the Nobel Prize in literature in 1930.
The word "Babbitt" entered the English language as a "person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards."