[Pocket Edition] World Literature Classics Library - Street

Author: Sinclair Lewis (Lewis, S.), translated by Pan Qingling
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Publishing Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book is part of the "World Literature Masterpiece Collection," a fully translated and illustrated edition. Babbitt is the masterpiece of Sinclair Lewis, an American Nobel Prize-winning author. After its publication, it quickly became a sensation in Europe and America, being reprinted 28 times within a year and hailed as "the most sensational event in 20th-century American publishing." The book also became a required reading for students in all levels of schools in Kansas at the time. The novel features a fresh theme, a distinctive style, and a rich sense of the American Midwest, with critics calling it the "most outstanding work in American literature depicting local color." Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was a renowned American novelist and a Nobel Prize laureate. Babbitt was his breakthrough work. Carol is a beautiful, lively, and romantically inclined young woman from an eastern U.S. city. After graduating from college, she marries the practical and conservative country doctor Kennicott and moves to the wealthy but dull town of Gopher in the Midwest. Unwilling to waste her youth in idleness, she aspires to reform the town. Unbeknownst to her, her most basic demands are rejected by the conservative forces in Gopher, who represent the ignorant and mercenary mindset and resist any change, resorting to covert surveillance and slander to intimidate her. Surrounded by conservative pressures, she feels isolated, confused, frustrated, and desperate, even breaking up with her husband and heading to Washington to seek a new path. There, she realizes the root of the problem: "The real enemy is not just a few individuals, but the conventions themselves." Two years later, she returns to her husband's side, placing her hopes in a great future—the year 2000. Babbitt is the masterpiece of Sinclair Lewis, an American Nobel Prize-winning author. After its publication, it quickly became a sensation in Europe and America, being reprinted 28 times within a year and hailed as "the most sensational event in 20th-century American publishing." The book also became a required reading for students in all levels of schools in Kansas at the time. Babbitt features a fresh theme, a distinctive style, and a rich sense of the American Midwest, with critics calling it the "most outstanding work in American literature depicting local color."