Babbitt
By: Sinclair Lewis ; edited with an introduction and notes by Gordon Hutner.
Contributors: Hutner, Gordon.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780199567690
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Middle-aged men -- Fiction; Businessmen -- Fiction; Conformity -- Fiction; City and town life -- Middle West -- Fiction; Middle West -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Babbitt turns the spotlight on middle America and strips bare the hypocrisy of business practice, social mores, politics, and religious institutions. In his introduction and notes Gordon Hutner explores the novel's historical and literary contexts, and highlights its rich cultural and social references. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Note on the text; title: Select bibliography; title: A chronology of Sinclair Lewis; title: Babbitt; title: Explanatory notes