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        Babbitt


        setting

        Zenith, Midwestern city

        time

        Unknown

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1922

        page count

        432

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        George F. Babbitt

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        The tower 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.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)