First published in 1922, Babbitt is Sinclair Lewis satire of American culture in the early part of the 20th century. In the years following World War I Americans began to idealize the middleclass lifestyle as a symbol of success, one crucial to the American identity. The successful selfmade family man living in a Midwestern town began to symbolize the American Dream. The titular character of this novel, George F. Babbitt, is one such man. Babbitt is a successful middleaged partner in a real estate firm who is married with three kids living in the fictional Midwestern town of Zenith. While having achieved the American Dream Babbitt gradually begins to feel a lack of fulfillment with how his life has turned out. He is a man unaware of the contemporary social and economic conditions that exist outside his own small circle. This lack of awareness begins to become increasingly apparent to him and a feeling of consternation sets in. Controversial upon its first publication for its criticism of what many Americans believed to be the ideal life, Babbitt is at once the tale of a middlelife crisis and a satirical critique of the vacuity of middleclass American life. This edition is printed on premium acidfree paper and includes an introduction by Hugh Walpole.

Binding: Paperback;274 pages; Publisher: Neeland Media LLC; Classification: N/A; Weight: 472.44 g; Dimensions: N/A

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