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Fiction · 1922 · English

Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

About this book

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis explores satire, psychological fiction, businessmen — fiction.

From the opening pages: “The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generations: the Post Office with its shingle-tortured mansard, the red brick minarets of hulking old houses, factories with stingy and sooted windows, wooden tenements colored like mud. The city was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes--they seemed--for laughter and…”

Author
Sinclair Lewis
First published
1922
Category
Fiction
Language
English

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