SINCLAIR LEWIS
ISBN: 978-8195316045
 
I hate your city. it has standardized all the beauty out of life. It is one big railroad station - with all the people taking tickets for the best cemeteries. George Follansbee Babbitt appears to have everything a man could wish: good health, a fine family, and a profitable business in a booming Midwestern city. But he is unimaginative, self-important, and hopelessly middle class. Vaguely dissatisfied with his position, he tries to alter the pattern of his life by flirting with liberalism and by having an affair with an attractive widow, only to find that his dread of ostracism is greater than his desire for escape. Lewis’s scathing satire of middle-class America, Babbitt explores the social pressures of conformity and materialism.