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Babbitt (Modern Library Classics) (Updated Edition) by Sinclair Lewis, Richard Lingeman (Introduction), (Notes) Harold Bush Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-375-75925-5 / 0375759255 ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75925-3 / 9780375759253 In the fall of 1920, Sinclair Lewis began a novel set in a fast-growing city with the heart and mind of a small town. For the center of his cutting satire of American business he created the bustling, shallow, and myopic George F. Babbitt, the epitome of middle-class mediocrity. The novel cemented L |