Scanned by Charles Keller with OmniPage Professional OCR software donated by Caere Corporation, 1-800-535-7226. Contact Mike Lough SINCLAIR LEWIS MAIN STREET To James Branch Cabell and Joseph Hergesheimer This is America–a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Scanned by Charles Keller with OmniPage Professional OCR software BABBITT BY SINCLAIR LEWIS To EDITH WHARTON BABBITT CHAPTER 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.