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AUDIOBOOK

Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis
4.4
(58)
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Duration
12h 27m
Year
2007
Language
English
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works

About

With an all-star cast including Stacy Keach, Helen Hunt, Edward Asner, Ted Danson and Richard Dreyfuss, this epic of the booming 1920's uniquely captures the relentless culture of American business. Babbitt is a true classic about conformity in small town America - celebrated for its comic tone, satire, and vivid dialogue. The play is based on Sinclair Lewis' novel, first published in 1922. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois, Bonnie Bedelia, Ed Begley Jr., Georgia Brown, Roscoe Lee Browne, Jack Coleman, Bud Cort, Ted Danson, William Devane, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Foxworth, Harry Hamlin, Julie Harris, Helen Hunt, Amy Irving, Stacy Keach, John Lithgow, Nan Martin, Marsha Mason, Richard Masur, Marian Mercer, Joanna Miles, Holly Palance, Judge Reinhold, Franklyn Seales, David Selby, Ally Sheedy, Madolyn Smith, James Whitmore, JoBeth Williams and Michael York.

Related Subjects

  • Literary
  • Adult Fiction
  • Classics
  • General (Adult Fiction)
  • Satire
  • General (Social Science)
  • Social Science
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • General (Family Life)
  • Family Life
  • General (Historical)
  • Historical
  • General (Humorous)
  • Humorous
  • General (Language Arts & Disciplines)
  • Language Arts & Disciplines

Reviews

"It's common in twentieth-century American fiction to decry the emptiness of middle-class life, and BABBITT has become the eponym of that theme. Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis is well served by narrator Adam Sims, who makes the shallow, hypocritical, money-grubbing George Babbitt more and more sympathetic as he learns--and struggles against--the limitations of his own nature. Sims deftly portrays the many moods of the protagonist and his friends and contacts in a bustling Midwestern city in the early 1920s. The pressures to conform and to be financially successful seem to be deeply ingrained in the American psyche, and this audiobook portrays the despair that often results. The rise and fall of Babbitt's rebellion come close to tragedy. D.M.H. � AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine"
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Artists

Sinclair LewisAuthor
Various ReadersReader

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