Chapter 8 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
<preserveI The great events of Babbitt's spring were the secret buying of real–estate options in Linton for certain street–traction officials, before ...
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Chapter 6 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
<preserveI He forgot Paul Riesling in an afternoon of not unagreeable details. After a return to his office, which seemed to have staggered on without...
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Chapter 7 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
The passage you have just read is an excerpt from Sinclair Lewis's novel Babbitt, a classic American work first published in 1922. This novel offers a...
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Chapter 4 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
The excerpt you have just read is from Sinclair Lewis’s novel Babbitt, a classic American work first published in 1922. This story offers a vivid port...
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Chapter 3 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
I To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ...
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At the Dry Tortugas During the War, Part 5 - Around The World In 80 Days by Jules Verne
<preserveThe first of May another steamer arrived the North, bringing two hundred and eighty prisoners from the Army of the Potomac. It was discouragi...
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At the Dry Tortugas During the War, Part 1 - Around The World In 80 Days by Jules Verne
<preserveThe great progress in modern scientific warfare within the last quarter of a century has made fort-building to our Engineer Corps a difficult...
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At the Dry Tortugas During the War, Part 2 - Around The World In 80 Days by Jules Verne
<preserveOn January 1, 1861, a rumor came that Mordaci, the owner of the Isabel, had offered her to Carolina for a man-of-war, our mail contract going...
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