LODGE DAVID

(P/B) THE ART OF FICTION
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 and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for stu...
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(P/B) A MAN OF PARTS
Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, "H.G." to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, "the man who invented tomorrow"; now he feels like yesterday's man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to...
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(P/B) SMALL WORLD
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 the globe, and romance is in the air... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THERAPY
A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. 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 memories of his 1950s South...
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(P/B) HOW FAR CAN YOU GO?
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, families, careers and deaths that follow. On the one hand there's Sex and then the Pill, on the other there is the traditional Catholic Church. In this razor-sharp novel David Lodge exposes the pressures that assailed Catholics everywhere within a more permissive society, and voices their eternal question: how far can you go? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) CHANGING PLACES
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 counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) NICE WORK
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 to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE CAMPUS TRILOGY
Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics....
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THE LANGUAGE OF FICTION
Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the time of its first publication in 1966 - and lucid exposition meant that the work proved a landmark of literary criticism, not least because it succeeded in communicating a radically new vision of English literature to a readership that reached well beyond the bounds of the academy. Now reissued with a new foreword, this major work from the pen of...
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(P/B) DEAF SENTENCE
Retired Professor of Lingustics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging father, who resents his son's attempts to help him. And then there's Alex, a student whom Desmond has agreed to help after a typical misunderstanding at a party. But her increasingly bizarre requests cannot all be blamed on his defective hearing. So much for growing old gracefully... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) PARADISE NEWS
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 tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope...
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(P/B) OUT OF THE SHELTER
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, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg. Kath, who left home long ago to work for the American army, introduces her sixteen-year-old brother to a lifestyle that is deliriously fast, furious and extravagant. Dazzled by the indulgent habits of the American forces, but at the same time sensitive to the broken spirits of the German community ...
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ΑΝΗΚΟΥΣΤΟΣ ΒΛΑΒΗ
Ο Ντέσμοντ Μπέιτς, καθηγητής Γλωσσολογίας, έχει βγει πρόωρα σε σύνταξη. Για να αφοσιωθεί στην έρευνα, όπως λέει - στην πραγματικότητα, επειδή σιγά σιγά χάνει την ακοή του και του είναι πια δύσκολο να διδάξει. Του λείπουν οι φοιτητές του, το πανεπιστήμιο, όλα, και μαραζώνει άπρακτος μέσα στο σπίτι. Με τη γυναίκα του, τη Φρεντ, η συνεννόηση γίνεται όλο και πιο δύσκολη. Κι όχι μόνο γιατί ακούει τα μισά απ’ όσα του λέει: η Φρεντ περνάει μια δεύτερη νεότητα και διαπρέπει επαγγελματικά, πράγμα που τον κάνει να νιώθει ακόμη πιο παροπλισμένος. Και...
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ΟΥΤΕ ΓΑΤΑ ΟΥΤΕ ΖΗΜΙΑ
Δευτέρα πρωί, Γενάρης. Ο Βικ Γουίλκοξ είναι ακόμη στο κρεβάτι του, αλλά δεν κοιμάται. Περιμένει ξάγρυπνος το ξυπνητήρι, να τον λυτρώσει από την ανησυχία. Ο Βικ ανησυχεί - για την προβληματική εταιρεία που διευθύνει, τη φθίνουσα πορεία της αγγλικής οικονομίας, το μέλλον των αποχαυνωμένων παιδιών του. . . Σε λίγο, στα τόσα του προβλήματα θα προστεθεί άλλο ένα: η Ρόμπυν Πένροουζ, λέκτωρ της αγγλικής λογοτεχνίας, αριστερίζουσα, φεμινίστρια και ψηλότερη απ' αυτόν, μπαίνει στη ζωή του. Η Ρόμπυν δεν γνωρίζει τίποτε από εργοστάσια και απεχθάνεται ...
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(P/B) THE BRITISH MUSEUM IS FALLING DOWN
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 fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
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, and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson. At the end of the decade Henry, worried by the failure of his books to sell, resolves to achieve fame and fortune as a playwright while Du Maurier diversifies into writing novels. The consequences that ensue mingle comedy, irony, pathos, and suspen...
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ΤΟ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΙΚΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ ΠΕΦΤΕΙ
(. . .) Ο ήρωας του Ντέιβιντ Λοτζ έρχεται, καβάλα στο σκουτεράκι του, από μια όχι και τόσο μακρινή εποχή, που ο οικογενειακός προγραμματισμός υπάκουε στους κανόνες του παπά της ενορίας και το Χάπι ήταν απλώς μια δελεαστική φήμη. Και δίνει την ευκαιρία στον αξεπέραστο συγγραφέα της «Θεραπείας» να υπογράψει μια από τις καλύτερες και πιο δηλητηριώδεις σάτιρές του, όπου η Εκκλησία συγκρούεται με την Αντισύλληψη και η υψηλή λογοτεχνία με την αληθινή ζωή. . . (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) SECRET THOUGHTS
Helen Reed, a novelist in her early forties, still grieving for her husband who died suddenly a year before, is a visiting teacher of creative writing at a university where Ralph Messenger, a cognitive scientist with a special interest in Artificial Intelligence and an incorrigible womaniser, is director of a prestigious research institute. He is an atheist and a materialist; she is a Catholic who has lost her faith but still yearns for the consolations of religion. Ralph is attracted to Helen and she, in spite of her principles, to him. T...
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ΜΙΚΡΕΣ ΠΙΚΡΕΣ ΑΛΗΘΕΙΕΣ
Ο Έιντριαν Λάντλοου είναι συγγραφέας με κύρος, διδάσκεται στο σχολείο και ζει ήσυχα, αποτραβηγμένος στο εξοχικό του. Εκεί καταφτάνει μια Κυριακή πρωί, σε έξαλλη κατάσταση, ο παλιός του φίλος Σαμ Σαρπ, επιτυχημένος σεναριογράφος με μεγάλη ζήτηση στο Χόλιγουντ. Έχει μόλις διαβάσει μια συνέντευξη που έδωσε στη δημοσιογράφο Φάνι Τάραντ - γνωστή για τη δηλητηριώδη πένα της - η οποία τον γελοιοποιεί πλήρως. Οι δύο άντρες αποφασίζουν μαζί να την εκδικηθούν. Όμως, ο πόλεμος που ανοίγουν κρύβει πολλούς κινδύνους και ο Έιντριαν θα ρισκάρει ό,τι πιο ...
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(P/B) GINGER, YOU'RE BARMY
When it isn't prison, it's hell. Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy deposit of post-war gloom. An endless round of kit layout, square-bashing, shepherd's pie 'made with real shepherds' and drills is relieved only by the occasional lecture on firearms or V.D. The reckless, impulsive Mike and the more pragmatic Jonathan adopt radically different attitudes to survive this two-year confiscation of their freedom, wit...
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