- Fiction, Businessmen, Middle-aged men, Conformity
"Zenith is the finest example of American life and prosperity to be found anywhere." Zenith is the Midwestern city where George F. Babbitt lives and works. A successful real estate agent, his business provides all the material trappings and comfort he thinks he ought to have.
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Classical in form, prestige, character-led and ironic.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Sinclair Lewis
- First published
- 1922
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Bibliotech Press, P.F. Collier & Son/Harcourt, IndyPublish.com
- Editions
- 451
- Language
- ice, German, cze, French
- ISBN
- 9781412118828
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“The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.”
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