Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

The perfect specimen of standardized, back-slapping, gadget-loving American respectability, a booster-city real-estate man, dimly senses his life means nothing and stages a doomed midlife rebellion before being beaten back into conformity. Lewis's savage, funny satire that gave the language a word.

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