Quote of the Day

"She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.”

- Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle-class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in literature to Lewis in 1930.