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Novelist and critic David Lodge has taken the compelling true story of H.G. 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...

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.

Now in paperback, this is a memoir from the author and critic David Lodge which charts his life from his birth in 1935 to the publication of his breakthrough book, "Changing Places", in 1975. Charts his childhood and youth, his time doing National Service and his university career, at a time of great social and cultural change in Britain.

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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 the creation and appreciation of literature.

A cunning, audacious portait of Henry James."-The Boston GlobeHenry James takes center stage in this brilliant story about literary ambition, creativity, and rivalry as revealed in the public career and private life of this most singular writer. Framed by a moving and dramatic account of his last illness, Author opens in the early 1880s, describing James's close friendship with an illustrator named George du Maurier and his intimate but proble...

David Lodge (CBE)¿s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l¿Ordre des Arts et des Let...

3 reissues of David Lodge's classic works on literature and writing. Part of a major new republishing of all of Lodge's books, tying in with the hardback novel "A Man Of Parts".

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.

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...

The restrictions of a wartime childhood in in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. 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.

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.

An omnibus edition of Lodge's classic campus trilogy, including "Changing Places, Small World" and "Nice Work".

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A moving, funny and masterful novel about the life of H.G. Wells - writer, thinker, lover and man of genius. 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? Unfolding this astonishing story, David Lodge depicts a man as contradictory as he was talented: a socialist w...