Forlag Dover Publications Inc.
Utgivelsesår 2003
Format Paperback
ISBN13 9780486431673
Språk Engelsk
Sider 320
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In fact there was but one thing wrong with the Babbitt house: It was not a home.
She had become so dully habituated to married life that in her full matronliness she was as sexless as an anemic nun.
By sliding the beds into low closets the bedromms were converted into living-rooms. The kitchen were cupboards each containing an electric range, a copper sink, a glass refrigerator, and, intermittently, a Balkan maid.
To them, the Romantic Hero was no longer the knight, the wandering poet, the cow-puncher, the aviator, nor the brave young district attorney, but the great sales-manager,
Finally, but most important, our Standardized Citizen, even if he is a bachelor, is a lover of the Little Ones, a supporter of the hearthstone which is the basic foundation of our civilization, first, last, and all the time, and the thing that most distinguishes us from the decayed nations of Europe.
Vinnere av nobelprisen.
Nobelprisen ble ikke utdelt i 1914, 1918, 1935 og 1940-1943. To personer mottok prisen i 1904, 1917, 1966 og 1974.