description: George Follansbee Babbitt is a middle-aged realtor in Zenith, Ohio. Unimaginative, self-important, and vaguely dissatisfied, he tries to alter the pattern of his life by flirting with liberalism and having an affair - only to find that his dread of ostracism is greater then his desire for escape. Lewis's seventh novel gave the language a word for a smug person who conforms to middle-class conventions.
language: English
title: Babbitt
titlecomplete: Babbitt
genres: Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature, American, Novels, Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize
ratings_count: 23256
publisher: Thorndike Press