Babbitt

'Babbitt respected bigness in anything: in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth or words.' First published in 1922, Babbitt is a scathing satirical novel that wittily condemns the vacuous and superficial lives of the middle class in early twentieth-century America. George F. Babbitt, a successful real estate agent in the fictional city of Zenith in the Midwest, is openly conservative: he embraces ...