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David Lodge
In his astutely observed first novel, David Lodge ushers in a congregation of characters whose hopes, confusions and foibles play out alongside the celluloid fantasies of the silver screen.
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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 of…
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Hugo Charteris
Philip is lost in a tangle which feels way above his head, struggling to maintain his self-control in what seems a hall of mirrors. Charteris, praised by Evelyn Waugh, is…
Kingsley Amis
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain’s new red brick universities.
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David Lodge’s Emma now has three new essays, reflecting new critical approaches such as feminism and deconstruction. A revised and extended introduction puts the changing interpretation of Jane Austen’s novel…
The restrictions of a wartime childhood in in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy’s early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister, Kath…
Bernard Bergonzi
This study examines David Lodge’s work from The Picturegoers (1960) to Therapy (1995).
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Bruce K. Martin
Discusses Lodge as a major figure in contemporary British and American letters. Playwright and fiction novelist, he authored The British Museum is Falling Down.
Vladimir Nabokov
The National Book Award-nominated classic finds hapless Russian emigre Timofey Pnin precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s, where he falls victim to subtle academic conspiracies and…
J. Russell Perkin
An engaging study of one of the most popular contemporary British novelists.
Umberto Eco
In 1327, Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Bakersville arrives to investigate. His delicate mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that…
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism is an anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. The critics collected together in this volume have been…
Now including a new introduction from the author, this major work from one of England’s finest living writers is essential reading for all those who care about the creation and…
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities’ Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his…
To all appearances, Laurence Passmore is sitting pretty. True, he’s almost bald and nicknamed Tubby , but the TV sitcom he writes keeps the money flowing in, and he has…
Lodge’s witty new novella explores what happens when the solitary world of writing collides with the intrusive demands of the media circus.
In 2004, Henry James featured as a character in no less than three novels - David Lodge’s Author, Author was one of them.
Traces the conception, writing and publication of the author’s book. This work offers psychological and literary insights which suggests nothing less than a short story by the Great Master, Henry…
Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a delectable comedy…
Framed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry James’s last illness, Author, Author begins in the early 1880s, describing James’s friendship with the genial Punch artist, George Du Maurier…
Alternately hilarious and poignant, Souls and Bodies follows a group of British Catholic university students through the ‘60s and '70s, as they fumble their way into the sexual revolution and…
Centered in Rummidge, a sprawling industrial town in the English midlands, Nice Work confirms Lodge’s rare capacity to be thought-provoking, moving, and very funny. A singularly brilliant and invigorating performance…
When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle’s engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they supposed…
David Lodge’s three delightfully sophisticated campus novels, now gathered together for the first time in the U.S. in one volume, expose the world of academia at its best–and its worst…
In this title, David Lodge explores the representation of human consciousness in fiction, mainly English and American, in the light of developments in cognitive science, neuroscience and related disciplines. He…
Now including a new introduction from the author, this major work from the pen of one of England’s finest living writers is essential reading for all those who care about…
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A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other…
In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers…
A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS. A MAN OF PASSION. A MAN OF THE FUTURE. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent’s Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, ‘H.G.’ to his…
Successful screenwriter Sam Sharp, fuming about a savage profile of himself in a Sunday newspaper, drops in to see his old university friend, distinguished novelist Adrian Ludlow. Together they decide…
‘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…
Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages…
David Lodge’s frank and illuminating memoir about the years where he found great success as a novelist and critic. Anyone who is interested in learning about the creative process, about…
From the witty author of Nice Work comes a story of a group of British tourists whose trip to Hawaii isn’t quite what anyone bargained for. Wonderfully entertaining … a…
The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, Lodge’s 14th work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. What emerges is a funny…
‘The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now…'Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent’s Park house in 1944…
From the author of Therapy and Small World comes a dazzling exploration of love, deception, and the enigmas of consciousness.
Reprint. Originally published: London: E. Arnold, 1977.
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When it isn’t prison, it’s hell. Or at least that’s the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike ‘Ginger’ Brady. The reckless, impulsive Mike and the more pragmatic Jonathan…
One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era’ Time OutThree brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping…
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…
As the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature may offer a kind of understanding that is complementary, not opposed, to scientific knowledge. Lodge explores the representation of human…
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…
As Tubby’s life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and…
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…
