Jan 1, 2010

Babbitt | What Do I Read Next?

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) uses techniques associated with European modernism to display the empty and hollow undercurrent in American life in the years following World War I. It is one of the most influential masterpieces of the era.

Main Street (1920), Lewis’s novel written just before Babbitt, is a satirical portrait of smalltown American life based on Lewis’s home town of Sauk Center, Minnesota.

A famous muckraking novel about the working conditions in a slaughterhouse, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) is...