Main Street and Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis

Original title: Main Street / Babbitt

earliest edition we have, 1992 Library of America, 1992 898 pages

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In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. These remarkable novels combine brilliant satire with a lingering affection for the men and women who, as Lewis wrote of Babbitt, want "to seize something more than motor cars and a house before it's too late." Main S...

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Main Street and Babbitt edition · 2022 · OK Publishing · 9788027279418
Lewis edition · 2018 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 426 pages · 9781719006187
Main Street and Babbitt edition · 2017 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 656 pages · 9781545507537
Main Street and Babbitt edition · 2017 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 396 pages · 9781546872979
Main Street / Babbitt edition · 1992 · Library of America · 898 pages

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