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Babbitt

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by G. K. Carey

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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.

Literary CriticismNonfictionLewis, sinclair, 1885-1951Literature, history and criticism