{"product_id":"babbitt-hardcover","title":"Babbitt: A Classic Satire of American Business and Conformity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSinclair Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSinclair Lewis's incisive portrait of American middle-class conformity in the early twentieth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1922, \u003cem\u003eBabbitt\u003c\/em\u003e follows George F. Babbitt, a prosperous real estate broker in the fictional Midwestern city of Zenith. Comfortable, respectable, and eager for social approval, Babbitt embodies the boosterism and commercial optimism of postwar America. Yet beneath his public enthusiasm lies dissatisfaction-an uneasy awareness of spiritual emptiness within a culture devoted to salesmanship, status, and routine success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough satire sharpened by psychological insight, Lewis exposes the tensions between individuality and conformity, ambition and authenticity. The novel remains one of the defining critiques of American business culture and small-city respectability, securing Lewis's reputation as the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. \u003cem\u003eBabbitt\u003c\/em\u003e endures as a landmark of twentieth-century social fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44424969289811,"sku":"9781515429180","price":58.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/9731\/2595\/files\/rJSmpfBbqy9781515429180.webp?v=1783955392","url":"https:\/\/the-stone-owl-bookstore.myshopify.com\/products\/babbitt-hardcover","provider":"The Stone Owl Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}