A portrait of George F. Babbitt, the prosperous, conniving real-estate man from Zenith who will live forever in American fiction.

George E. Babbitt, a conniving, prosperous real estate man from Zenith, Ohio, revels in his popularity, his success, and, especially, in the mate

George F. Babbitt is a hustling, prosperous real estate broker in a city of about 350,000. Back of his business and clubs and 100% activities is

Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything a man could wish. But when a personal crisis forces the middle-aged

"In the fall of 1920, Sinclair Lewis began a novel set in a fast-growing city with the heart and mind of a small town. For the center of his cutt

Babbitt turns the spotlight on middle America and strips bare the hypocrisy of business practice, social mores, politics, and religious instituti

In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the com

An unabridged reading of Sinclair Lewis's "Babbit, " a satirical look at the sociology of American business and middle-class culture as seen thro