Babbitt (Signet Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 045147371X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Babbitt, his family, and his social circle are the very essence of the American Dream in all its glory and emptiness, and their story is a stirring portrait of a way of life in profound flux. Babbitt represents an ordinary man whose life turns upside down during one of the most profound sea changes in American cultural history: the mechanization and hucksterism of the Roaring Twenties. At once a conformist and a rebel, George F. Babbitt remains one of Sinclair Lewis’s most widely read novels. Contemptible and touching, frivolous and tragic, Babbitt is a rich, complex character whose legacy carries an eerie resonance to this day.Includes a new afterword by Azar NafisiIntroduction by Sally E. Since the 1922 publication of Babbitt, its eponymous antihero—a prosperous real estate broker and relentless social climber
"Lewis is like Tolstoy win that his novel is a morality tale" according to Jeffery D. Troutt. Sinclair Lewis does an outstanding job tracking a man's mid-life crisis and its effect on him and his family--probably Lewis is like Tolstoy win that his novel is a morality tale Jeffery D. Troutt Sinclair Lewis does an outstanding job tracking a man's mid-life crisis and its effect on him and his family--probably 40 year before the the phrase "mid-life crisis" was invented. Lewis is like Tolstoy win that his novel is a morality tale, in which the author has clear views of what makes, and breaks, human happiness. Even though I say it is predictable, it is well writte. 0 year before the the phrase "mid-life crisis" was invented. Lewis is like Tolstoy win that his novel is a morality tale, in which the author has clear views of what makes, and breaks, human happiness. Even though I say it is predictable, it is well writte. Great Classic Henry G. Obermayer Sinclair Lewis has to be one of the "great" writers of all time. In Babbitt he describes an era using fictional characters to represent the times in which many changes were taking place in the social environment of our country. America was coming out of the rural age and into the age of technical development, and characters reflected the effects of these changes in Lewis' n. "Babbitt" according to -_Tim_-. I tried to read Babbitt several years ago and stopped because I thought that the satire was too cruel. I was mistaken. Sinclair Lewis created a wonderful character in George Babbitt, a minor business figure in the minor metropolis of Zenith. Babbitt has a wife and two children and a house with all the modern conveniences: "In fact there was but one thing wrong with the Babb
Theatre Works 1987 full cast production featuring more than 30 actors, including Ed Asner (as Babbitt), Judge Reinhold, Ted Danson, Richard Dreyfuss, Helen Hunt and John Lithgow. . At times, this is executed well, but sometimes it feels as if the director is just trying to give everyone more voice time. (Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Lewis's tale of middle-class frustration, stress and success in the 1920s is brought to life by the L.A. Whether bullying his family or spouting politics with his friends at the club, Asner keeps the consistency of the self-aggrandizing character solid throughout. All rights reserved. With a deep and raspy voice and