The British Museum Is Falling Down

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780099554226

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The British Museum is Falling Down by David Lodge Pdf

The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. 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. 'A comic tour de force...the hapless Appleby remains one of his most keenly observed characters' Observer

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446496688

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The British Museum Is Falling Down by David Lodge Pdf

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.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035937478

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How Far Can You Go? by David Lodge Pdf

"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?" -- Provided by publisher.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446496749

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Paradise News by David Lodge Pdf

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 of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015027295925

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Souls and Bodies by David Lodge Pdf

The ups, downs, and exploits of a group of British Catholics--for whom the sexual revolution came a little later than it did for everybody else... In this bracing satire, a group of university students make their way through the fifties and into the turbulent sixties and seventies. We first meet Dennis, Michael, Ruth, Polly, and the others at the altar rail of Our Lady and St. Jude, but soon enough they get caught up in the alternately hilarious and poignant preoccupations of work, marriage, sex, and babies--not always in that order. A satirical comedy in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh, Souls and Bodies take an unblinking look at the sexual revolution and the contemporaneous upheavals in the Catholic Church. The result is as unsettlingly true as it is funny.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:222156389

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British museum is falling down by David Lodge Pdf

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473524095

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The Picturegoers by David Lodge Pdf

Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picturegoers who touch and shape each other’s destinies. Amongst them is Mark, the cynical intellectual who seeks sensuality and finds spirituality; Clare, his girlfriend, who loses faith and discovers passion; Father Kipling, the scandalized priest; and Harry, the sexually frustrated Teddy boy. 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.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143122098

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A Man of Parts by David Lodge Pdf

A riveting novel about the remarkable life—and many loves—of author H. G. Wells H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact with the most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored and disillusioned in his own utopian visions. Novelist and critic David Lodge has taken the compelling true story of Wells's life and transformed it into a witty and deeply moving narrative about a fascinating yet flawed man. Wells had sexual relations with innumerable women in his lifetime, but in 1944, as he finds himself dying, he returns to the memories of a select group of wives and mistresses, including the brilliant young student Amber Reeves and the gifted writer Rebecca West. As he reviews his professional, political, and romantic successes and failures, it is through his memories of these women that he comes to understand himself. Eloquent, sexy, and tender, the novel is an artfully composed portrait of Wells's astonishing life, with vivid glimpses of its turbulent historical background, by one of England's most respected and popular writers.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446496732

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Nice Work by David Lodge Pdf

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.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473520936

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Quite A Good Time to be Born by David Lodge Pdf

'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, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother. Four years old when World War II began, David grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change - giving him plenty to write about. Candid, witty and insightful, Quite a Good Time to be Born illuminates a period of transition in British society, and charts the evolution of a writer whose works have become classics in his own lifetime.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446496695

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Changing Places by David Lodge Pdf

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...

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446485675

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Small World by David Lodge Pdf

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...

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385533423

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Solar by Ian McEwan Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement, this “totally gripping and entirely hilarious” novel (The Wall Street Journal) traces the arc of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s ambitions and self-deception. Dr. Michael Beard’s best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and halfheartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. Meanwhile, Michael’s fifth marriage is floundering due to his incessant womanizing. When his professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Michael to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster. But can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity? Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Castellnou
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788498049138

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MOBY DICK by Herman Melville Pdf

Moby Dick és la novel·la més important de Melville. Explica l'obsessió d'un home, el capità Ahab, per matar Moby Dick, una balena en la qual veu l'encarnació del Mal. Ahab actua mogut per l'odi a l'animal que, una vegada, li va arrencar una cama. Però, per sobre del ressentiment, predomina la seva convicció que Moby Dick és un ésser malèfic que el destí ha decidit posar davant d'ell perquè el mati o perquè mori en l'intent.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448129850

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The Practice of Writing by David Lodge Pdf

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, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls the rug from under certain theoretical critics and throws open the curtains on his own workshop.