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Babbitt

by: Sinclair Lewis (author)

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780486431673 (0486431673)

Publish date: September 22nd 2003

Publisher: Dover Publications

Pages no: 320

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Literature, American, Fiction

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- Alors... on prétend que les rêves sont le contraire de la réalité.Et ainsi il se rendit compte que c'était de la folie de prendre la fuite, parce qu'il ne pourrait jamais se fuir lui-même.

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I was wary of this novel of 1920s America, given what very little I knew of it, which was only that its title has become a metaphor, now fairly little-used, for an entirely conventional and complacent middle-class man. I thought that it would be very satirical, and very much of its time and place, a...

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In the USA the word "Babbitt" has become synonymous for Philistine, thus for "a self-satisfied person who conforms readily to conventional, middle-class ideas and ideals, especially of business and material success" (babbitt. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. http://dicti...

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