Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

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BABBITT

BY
SINCLAIR LEWIS
AUTHOR OF “MAIN STREET”
HBMC
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To
EDITH WHARTON

[Chapter: I,] [ II,] [ III,] [ IV,] [ V,] [ VI,] [ VII,] [ VIII,] [ IX,] [ X,] [ XI,] [ XII,] [ XIII,] [ XIV,] [ XV,] [ XVI,] [ XVII,] [ XVIII,] [ XIX,] [ XX,] [ XXI,] [ XXII,] [ XXIII,] [ XXIV,] [ XXV,] [ XXVI,] [ XXVII,] [ XXVIII,] [ XXIX,] [ XXX,] [ XXXI,] [ XXXII,] [ XXXIII,] [ XXXIV]

BABBITT

CHAPTER I

I

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. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings.