Novel

Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

George F. Babbitt sells real estate in the booming Midwestern city of Zenith, believes everything he is told to believe, and is quietly miserable. Sinclair Lewis’s novel of 1922 gave the language a word for a self-satisfied man of business. In 1930 Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 8 hr 20 min

Where to find it

The Lost Property Office, down the book lift in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #1156. In the public domain in the United States.