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When it comes to the craft of writing, bestselling novelist David Lodge finds much to celebrate, analyze, and confess. In this absorbing collection of seventeen essays he ponders the work of writers he particularly admires, current and past trends in literary style, and the mechanics of the craft itself. Revealing, enlightening pieces on Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis and Anthony Burgess are interspersed with personal reflections on...

David Lodge returns to the campus for this funny and poignant novel, bringing together the elements that have made his writing so successful, (randy academics, departmental feuds and hopeless postgraduates etc), and a central protagonist, linguistics professor Desmond Bates, retired early, whose advancing loss of hearing is a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment. 'Seriously funny' "New Statesman", 'One of the most movi...

Chiuso nella sua casa di Regent's Park, nella Londra colpita dai bombardamenti, Herbert Gorge Wells, H.G. per amici e parenti, guarda indietro alla sua vita piena di avvenimenti, libri e donne. E stata un successo o un fallimento? Ricorda i suoi inizi poco promettenti e le prime lotte per istruirsi e guadagnarsi poi da vivere come insegnante, la sua rapida ascesa al successo come scrittore dall'immaginazione visionaria e un'immediatezza che lo...

David Lodge's novels have earned comparisons to those of John Updike and Philip Roth and established him as "a cult figure on both sides of the Atlantic" (The New York Times). Thinks . . . , his witty new novel about secret infidelities and the nature of consciousness, unfolds in the alternating voices of Ralph Messenger, director of the Centre for Cognitive Science at the University of Gloucester, and Helen Reed, a novelist and writer in resi...

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A landmark work of literary criticism from this popular and influential writer.

This is the widely anticipated new edition of Lodge and Wood's classic introduction to the leading thinkers in literary criticism. Literary criticism is taught as a core part of every English degree -- this book will be widely adopted on these courses The 'Lodge' name is hugely recognised by academic and general reader alike

By all appearances, Laurence Passmore is sitting pretty. True, he is almost bald and his nickname in "Tubby", but the TV sitcom he writes keeps the money coming in, he has an exclusive house in Rummridge, a state-of-the-art car, a vigorous sex life with his wife of thirty years, and a platonic mistress to talk shop with. What money can't buy, and his many therapists can't deliver, is contentment. It's not the trouble behind the scenes of his T...

Approaching his 50th birthday, Ralph Messenger has good reason to feel pleased with himself. He is in demand as a pundit on developments in artificial intelligence, and is a regular on the media circuit. A womanizer, he refrains from straying in his own back yard, until Helen arrives on the scene.

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, moving account of one man's effort to come to terms with aging and mortality.

Most contemporary ecologists conceive of nature as undergoing continual change and find that "flux of nature" is a more accurate than "balance of nature." This volume address how this paradigm fits into the broader history of ecological science and the cultural history of the West, and how environmental ethics and ecotheology should respond to it.

Timothy Young tiene cinco años cuando las bombas alemanas caen sobre Londres y la población civil debe correr a los refugios. Acabada la guerra, cuando Timothy tiene 16 años, su hermana mayor, Kath, que trabaja como secretaria para las tropas norteamericanas estacionadas en Alemania, lo invita a pasar el verano con ella. Timothy abandona en barco Inglaterra y llega a Heidelberg, donde descubre perplejo el universo yanqui, con sus maneras tan d...

Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping--even rediscovery--by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. As the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature, David Lodge suggests, may offer a kind of understanding that is complementary, not opposed, to scientific knowledge. Writing with characteristic wit and brio...

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.

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 welcome addition to a rich and diverting oeuvre".-- New York Times Book Review.

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".--Chicago Tribune.

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.

New editions of classic novels from Lodge, tying in with the publication of new hardback "A Man Of Parts".

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...