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Title	:	Babbitt
Author	:	Sinclair Lewis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 348 pages
Published	:	May 29th 2008 by BiblioLife (first published 1922)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature

Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis

Paperback | Pages: 348 pages

Rating: 3.66 | 20774 Users | 1217 Reviews

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The Success of Failure

Babbitt is perhaps the first comic novel of mid-life crisis. It shows Lewis at his most Dickens-like, creating prototypical American characters that live on in cultural mythology.

The issue is this: How does an imperfect male human being, knowing his flaws only too well, make his way in an equally flawed society - without sacrificing either his own integrity or his ability to participate in that society? Lewis answer: Essentially he can't. Everything is irrational compromise.

Plato's Socrates came to the same conclusion in the Republic. It is also the inevitability posed by Camus in his letters. It was the third century Christian theologian Tertullian who came up with the most precise formulation: Credo quia absurdum est, I believe in it because it is absurd.

Babbitt's middle class American life is an absurdity. That he comes to terms with this absurdity is his, and our, only hope. Highly recommended as literary therapy during the reign of Donald Trump... or to understand where Philip Roth finds much of his inspiration.

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Original Title:	Babbitt
ISBN:	142640607X (ISBN13: 9781426406072)
Edition Language:	English

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It always amazes me how human nature does not change. This book was written in and about the 1920's but except for some anachronistic language, could have been written today. This was also a fun glimpse at Prohibition era America. Lewis was spot on in many of his characterizations and was an astute observer of human nature.This should be on a list of books that everyone should read.

George F. Babbitt is the perfect encapsulation of the myth of the self-made American man. As we all know, the American Dream only really applies to bullish, rule-breaking, money-obsessed, morally loose, emotionally shrunken borderline psychotics, and Babbitt meets these criteria and then some. This quintessential novel of the Roaring Twenties is a rollicking powerhouse that exquisitely nails down the natty nuances of speech, the strange, affected cadences of the pep-powered peoples in a decade

Though written in the 1920s, this book easily could have been written today. I'm amazed by how relatable, and familiar, it felt. Lewis captures a yearning that I think many people experience, and in his pitiable, unlikable hero, he descries the fate of modernity. I'd much rather have read this book than The Great Gatsby in high school. It is possible, however, that I wouldn't quite of understood it. The tone, irony, and poignancy in this book really struck me. I want to write a paper about it!

First off, I'll say that Sinclair Lewis had a great writing style. Amazing description. Good characterization. But as far as I could tell (and okay, I only got through the second disk--1/6th of the book) there wasn't an actual plot to the story. Seriously, the guy woke up, shaved, had breakfast, and went to work. He dictated letters and bough a cigar lighter. That was pretty much it.I'm not sure why this book is a classic. Mostly I just wondered if everybody else's life was so petty and devoid

BABBITT is the devastatingly funny yet still endearing portrait of George Babbitt, a suburban real estate broker who is 46 in 1920. It's fascinating and disturbing when reading BABBITT to realize how little American business, American marriages, and American men have changed in the past 91 years. In 1920 gas cost 31 cents a gallon, liquor was illegal though in plentiful supply, and the internet had yet to be imagined, but George's emotional mix of bluster, bullying, babyish pouting, and his

I think I may have read a short story or two by Sinclair Lewis during high school or early college, but if I did I don't remember it. Lewis was never one of the early modern American writers that I was very curious about, and so when Anna gave me a copy of Babbitt that she bought at some discount book sale, along with several other books, for my birthday I was maybe least excited about Babbitt (among that group of books)--knew nothing about it, really, aside from having heard of it before. Maybe

I have been thoroughly enjoying my exploration of Lewiss fiction, but now that Ive reached Babbitt I see why it is considered his masterpiece. It is a tightly plotted, incisively character-driven, all-too-realistic journey through the quiet desperation of middle class life, led by a protagonist who is both revolting and utterly compelling.