Title: Babbitt
Subtitle: notes : including life and background, list of characters, summaries & critical commentaries, character analysis, "technique and content in Babbitt", suggested essay topics, selected bibliography
Description: Shooting arrows at American business and the ethic of self-advancement, Lewis gives us Babbitt, a social-climbing, hopelessly middle-class oaf. By skewering the borgeousie, Babbitt gives us social criticism and a new type of character that reappears in American arts and letters.
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Lewis, sinclair, 1885-1951, Literature, history and criticism
People: Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)