Babbitt is professionally successful as a realtor. He lives with only the vaguest awareness of the lives and deaths of his contemporaries. Much of his energy in the beginning is spent on climbing the social ladder through booster functions, real estate sales, and making good with various dignitaries.

Slavný román z lékařského prostředí, za který autor obdržel Pulitzerovu cenu.

Mladý energický lékař Arrowsmith, kterého pro vědeckou práci zapálil jeho nesmlouvavý učitel, má především nesmírnou houževnatost. Přes mnoho trpkých zkušeností v boji s epidemií moru, kde ztrácí i své nejbližší, se nevzdává a ani největší zklamání ho nedokáže odradit od další práce. Autorovi se v působivém románu podařilo sugestivně vylíčit těžké podmínky pro vědeckou činnost v systému, kde komercionalismus brání svobodné tvůrčí práci.

Amusing and tragic by turn, Sinclair Lewis's classic novel is a biting satire of middle-American values whose title has entered the language as a byword for smug complacency, conformity, and materialism, and whose suburban targets are still much in evidence. A successful real estate agent, George F. Babbitt is a member of all the right clubs, and unquestioningly shares the same aspirations and ideas as his friends and fellow Boosters. Yet even Babbitt dreams of romance and escape, and when his best friend does something to throw his world upside down, he rebels, and tries to find fulfillment...

'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into authoritarianism, newspaper editor...