Babbitt: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Babbitt, credited to Sinclair Lewis, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis. Read by Mike Vendetti. (Summary by Mike Vendetti) Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises you. As you begin to like him, he does something to evoke the “what a rat” response. Male menopause wasn’t a pre Great Depression term, but I would say George has all the symptoms. At a pudgy balding forty six he looks at his life, wife, family and business. He sees himself as a pretty successful business man, but when Tanis, the lonely widow has a leaky roof, he sees an opportunity for perhaps a more fulfilling relationship then he has at home. Add to Tanis a foray into radical politics, and we are about to witness an emotional and financial train wreck with Babbitt at the throttle. This is a long story, but well worth listening to. Human nature hasn’t changed much in the last ninety years. Enjoy the novel, Mike Vendetti

Recording facts

• Recording title: Babbitt
• Author credits: Sinclair Lewis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 13:25:53

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• satire
• middle-class America

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 26:40
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 20:52
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 29:16
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 25:48
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 35:23
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 47:58
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 24:53
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 39:24
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 20:06
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 30:19
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 12:34
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 8:16
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 38:02
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 30:40
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 25:21
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 19:54
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 22:29
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 23:29
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 29:35
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 13:20
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 12:32
22. 22 -Chapter 22 — 10:21
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 20:16
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 25:10

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