Word: perrichon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George, who, mirabile dictu, has come to visit, not to lecture, has said that "Babbitt" remains the most popular American novel in England. The little salesman, he asserts, with his squandered energy, his lusts, and his pathetic aspirations is not only one of the world's heroes like M. Perrichon, but is, for the Englishman, the prototype of the American...
Many readers of the novel have thought Babbitt, like M. Perrichon, grossly exaggerated to prove a point. There is perhaps a suggestion of Babbitt in every American salesman, but every salesman is not therefore a Babbitt...