Babbitt
Novel
By: Sinclair Lewis
Date: 1922
Source: Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1922, 1–10, 12–13.
About the Author: Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) was one of modern America's most popular and well-respected novelists. His work combines strong characterization with biting social commentary. Along with Babbitt, some of Lewis's best-known novels include Dodsworth, Main Street, and Elmer Gantry.
Introduction
Sinclair Lewis's masterpiece, the novel Babbitt, features a devastating portrait of the quintessential smug, complacent 1920s "Booster," George Babbitt, a man who buys into the empty materialism of post–World War I America. An unabashed cheerleader for his country, his social class, and his nation's prevailing business ethos, Babbitt fits perfectly the description of the ever-faithful bourgeois, for he is...
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