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Babbitt

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Babbitt
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sinclair Lewis
Introduction by Richard Lingeman
SeriesModern Library Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:432
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 133
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780375759253
ClassificationsDewey:813.52
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House USA Inc
Imprint Modern Library Inc
Publication Date 8 January 2002
Publication Country United States

Description

Set in a typical American city in the boom years if the 1920s, this satire speaks fo the hypocritical values and capitalist obsession of the Gilded Age.

Author Biography

Richard Lingeman is a senior editor of The Nation. He is the author of Small Town America, a biography of Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis- Rebel from Main Street.

Reviews

"[It is] by its hardness, its efficiency, its compactness that Mr. Lewis's work excels."-Virginia Woolf