Babbitt - Softcover

Lewis, Sinclair

 
9780099264712: Babbitt
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099264714 ISBN 13: 9780099264712
Verlag: Vintage Classics, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

BY THE AUTHOR OF IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

Businessman George F. Babbitt loves the latest appliances, making money and the Republican party. In fact, he loves being a Solid Citizen even more than he loves his wife. But Babbitt comes to resent the middle class trappings he has worked so hard to acquire. Realising that his life is devoid of meaning, he grows determined to transcend his trivial existence and search for a greater purpose.

In the economic boom years of 1920s' America, Babbitt became a symbol of middle-class mediocrity, and his name an enduring part of the American lexicon.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sinclair Lewis was an American playwright and novelist. Born in 1885, he received his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1908 and published his first novel, Hike and the Aeroplane, in 1912. He published Babbitt, perhaps his most fanous work, in 1922 and in 1926 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Arrowsmith but rejected it. In 1930 he was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in Rome, in 1951, and his last novel World So Wide was published posthumously.

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Verlag
Vintage Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099264714
ISBN 13 
9780099264712
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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