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Paradise News by David Lodge
Category: Fiction
Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted t ...Show more
Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 by David Lodge
Category: Biography
'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his mother, David Lodge was four when World War II ...Show more
Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 by David Lodge
Category: Biography
A memoir from one of Britain's finest novelists and critics. 'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and ...Show more
Scenes of Academic Life by David Lodge
Category: World | Series: Pocket Penguin 70 Years
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books ...Show more
Small World by David Lodge
Category: Fiction
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of ...Show more
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
Category: Languages and Reference
In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism a ...Show more
The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts by David Lodge
Category: Languages and Reference
"The Art of Fiction" is essential, thoroughly entertaining reading for writers, students and anyone who wants to understand how literature works. The articles by David Lodge, which first appeared in the "Independent on Sunday", are expanded here and consider the subject under a wide range of headings su ...Show more
The British Museum is Falling Down by David Lodge
Category: Fiction
"The British Museum is Falling Down" is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fa ...Show more
The British Museum is Falling Down (Penguin Decades) by David Lodge
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Decades
"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of ...Show more
The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge
Category: Fiction
'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' - "Time Out." Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.
The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories by David Lodge
Category: Fiction
Shrewd, funny and delightfully entertaining, this is the first collection of short stories from one of Britain’s finest novelists and critics The first collection of short stories from one of Britain’s finest novelists and critics A nameless man who has fallen out of love with life, refuses to get out ...Show more