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Babbitt

First published: 1922
Pages: 331

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01 - Chapter 1
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02 - Chapter 2
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03 - Chapter 3
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04 - Chapter 4
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05 - Chapter 5
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06 - Chapter 6
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07 - Chapter 7
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08 - Chapter 8
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09 - Chapter 9
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10 - Chapter 10
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11 - Chapter 11
12:33
12 - Chapter 12
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13 - Chapter 13
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14 - Chapter 14
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15 - Chapter 15
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16 - Chapter 16
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17 - Chapter 17
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18 - Chapter 18
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19 - Chapter 19
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20 - Chapter 20
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21 - Chapter 21
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22 -Chapter 22
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23 - Chapter 23
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24 - Chapter 24
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25 - Chapter 25
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26 - Chapter 26
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27 - Chapter 27
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28 - Chapter 28
21:48
29 - Chapter 29
36:42
30 - Chapter 30
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31 - Chapter 31
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32 - Chapter 32
21:55
33 - Chapter 33
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34 - Chapter 34
22:55

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George F. Babbitt sells real estate in the booming Midwestern city of Zenith, and on the surface he has everything a 1920s American is supposed to want: a comfortable house, a respectable family, a seat among the town's civic boosters. Sinclair Lewis pins him under a microscope, cataloguing the slang, the salesmanship, and the anxious conformity of the business class until Babbitt himself begins to chafe. A brush with his best friend's ruin and a short-lived rebellion send him groping after something he cannot name. The novel handed the language a word, babbittry, for smug middle-class complacency, and remains Lewis's sharpest portrait of American respectability and its discontents. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB.

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Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (1885 to 1951) was an American novelist famous for skewering the conformity and hypocrisy of small-town and business America in the 1920s. His run of major novels earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, the first awarded to an American.