by Sinclair Lewis · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099264712
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«Babbitt» is the satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis, published by Random House UK in paperback (384 pages, in English).
The novel follows George F. Babbitt, a businessman in the fictional city of Zenith who begins to feel trapped by the middle-class life he always wanted. Caught between material success and social appearances, Babbitt tries to escape his routine and find purpose, in a satirical portrait of prosperous 1920s America.
The work originally appeared in 1922; this edition is from 1994 and is part of the Vintage Classics collection.
A work for those who enjoy American classics, social satire and period portraits.
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
