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Babbitt
(Audio, 2001)
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Author: Sinclair Lewis
A guide to reading "Babbitt" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging ana...
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Format: Audio
ISBN-10: 078619717X
ISBN-13: 9780786197170
Jul 2001
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Unabridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
A guide to reading "Babbitt" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample test, term paper suggestions, and a reading list., Sinclair Lewis's seventh novel, the first written after the breakout success of MAIN STREET, is a scathing satirical critique of capitalism, conformity, and "boosterism" in the fictional Midwestern city of Zenith. The novel's protagonist, George F. Babbitt, is a middle-aged boss at a real estate agency who excels at selling overpriced houses of poor quality. Obsessed with status, and seeking to rise in the city's tight-knit class system, Babbitt desperately strives to join the right groups, express the best opinions, and know the finest people--but he hopelessly bungles his attempt to climb the social ladder. Suffering an emotional crisis, he briefly rebels and embraces more liberal viewpoints, but the social structure quickly reins him in, forcing Babbitt to realign himself once again with the cultural mainstream. Babbitt is pathetic, pompous, and frequently detestable, but in his earnest, awkward struggles, Lewis sympathetically portrays the tragedy of an individual squashed by the strictures of a banal society.
| Size | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 7.0 in | | Thickness: | 2.0 in | | Weight: | 16.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"It has that something extra, over and above, which makes the work of art, and it is signed in every line with the unique personality of the writer. It is saturated with American's vitality which makes one obey the rhythms of its dance music. And combined with this, Mr. Lewis has an individual gift of humour, a curiously sage devotion to craftsmanship, and a poetic passion for his own, new country."
New Statesman - Rebecca West (10/21/1922)
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