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Con umorismo, David Lodge narra la vicenda di un'avvenente insegnante e un maturo ingegnere che cercano di vivere una storia d'amore sullo sfondo di un'Inghilterra in inarrestabile declino, popolata da docenti e imprenditori squilibrati e dominata dalla tirannia implacabile di mass media e intellettuali.

In 2004, Henry James featured as a character in no less than three novels - David Lodge's Author, Author was one of them. With insightful and amusing candour, here he traces the history of his book from conception to publication, pondering the mystery - and indeed the anguish - of so many novels about James appearing at the same time.

Illuminating both the author and his work, this book gives a picture of a period of transition in British society and the evolution of a writer who has become a classic in his own lifetime.

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Un joven profesor universitario se enamora perdidamente de una bella y misteriosa muchacha a la que conoce en un seminario de literatura y se lanza en su persecucion por medio mundo. Viaja de un congreso academico a otro, con continuos cambios de continente, y en su periplo en pos de su amada se va topando con una variopinta fauna de intelectuales de postin y prestigiosos academicos, conferenciantes internacionales para los que los aviones se ...

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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, 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 l...

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, with dramatic consequences

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A memoir from one of Britain's finest novelists and critics.

A trio of dazzling novels in a comic mode that the author has now made completely his own...a cause for celebration." -The New York Times Book ReviewDavid Lodge's three delightfully sophisticated campus novels, now gathered together in one volume, expose the world of academia at its best-and its worst. In Changing Places, we meet Philip Swallow, British lecturer in English at the University of Rummidge, and the flamboyant American Morris Zapp ...

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 of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance". From the author of the award-winning Changing Places.

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 hilariou...