Chapter 20 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Background and Author Introduction
Read MoreChapter 18 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
I Though he saw them twice daily, though he knew and amply discussed every detail of their expenditures, yet for weeks together Babbitt was no more ...
Read MoreChapter 17 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
I There are but three or four old houses in Floral Heights, and in Floral Heights an old house is one which was built before 1880. The largest of th...
Read More
Chapter 14 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
I This autumn a Mr. W. G. Harding, of Marion, Ohio, was appointed President of the United States, but Zenith was less interested in the national cam...
Read More
Chapter 13 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
The excerpt you have just read is from Sinclair Lewis’s novel Babbitt, a satirical portrayal of American middle-class life in the 1920s. The story fol...
Read More
Chapter 11 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
I They had four hours in New York between trains. The one thing Babbitt wished to see was the Pennsylvania Hotel, which had been built since his las...
Read More