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The Changing Places
A Tale of Two Campuses

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1 October 1979

The plate-glass, concrete jungle of Euphoria State University, USA, and the damp red-brick University of Rummidge have an annual exchange scheme. Normally the exchange passes without comment. But when Philip Swallow swaps with Professor Zapp the fates play a hand.

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Small World
An Academic Romance

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 28 March 1985

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. 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.

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Author! Author!

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 7 July 2005

Thronged with vividly drawn characters, some of them with famous names, Author! Author! presents a fascinating panorama of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England.

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Thinks...

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 2 May 2002

Ralph Messenger is an academic star of language and thought research, Helen Reed is a novelist teaching creative writing to help her overcome her husband's death. Despite huge differences in belief and temperament they begin an affair that has both tragic and comic consequences.

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Therapy

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1 May 1995

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The Art of Fiction
Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 12 October 1992

Features various articles considering the art of fiction under a range of headings such as 'The Intrusive Author', 'Suspense', and 'Magic Realism'. This book illustrates several styles and techniques by passages from classic or modern fiction. It is suitable for writers, students and those who want to understand how literature works.

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Changing places
A Tale of Two Campuses

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 25 May 1978

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How Far Can You Go?

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 24 September 1981

Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and their peers were bound to lose their spiritual innocence and their virginities on the way from the 1950s to the '70s. On the one hand there was the traditional Catholic Church, on the other the siren call of the permissive society. It was inevitable that things would change radically. But how far could it go?

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How Far Can You Go

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 7 April 2011

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.

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Out of the Shelter

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 24 April 1986

The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. But everything changes when Timothy's glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg.

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Therapy

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 2 May 1996

A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marriage, a platonic mistress and a flashy 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.

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The Picturegoers

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1 April 1993

The Palladium, Brickley, is the haunting setting for this novel. Here is a seedy Saturday night venue which attracts people searching for something new in their lives. Mark, Clare and Father Kipling are just three of the characters featured.

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Paradise News

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1 September 1991

A group of British tourists set out from a congested Heathrow to their package holiday. Hawaii, and more particularly the high-rise tourist ghetto of Waikiki, is the stage on which the fortunes of this range of characters cross and occasionally collide. The author also wrote "Nice Work".

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Deaf Sentence

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1 May 2008

Presents an account of one man's effort to come to terms with deafness and death, aging and mortality, the comedy and tragedy of human lives.

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Nice Work

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 29 June 1989

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. But, in time, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves.

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Changing Places
A Tale of Two Campuses

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 25 May 1978

When Phillip 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.

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Small World

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1984

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Author, Author

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 2 September 2004

A captivating new historical novel from one of the most successful popular literary novelists.

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Thinks...

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 20020502

Ralph Messenger is an academic star of language and thought research, Helen Reed is a novelist teaching creative writing to help her overcome her husband's death. Despite huge differences in belief and temperament they begin an affair that has both tragic and comic consequences.

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Paradise News

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 2 July 1992

Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation paradise; it is to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister. The hand of fate and family tensions frustrate the planned reunion, however.

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Ginger, You're Barmy

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 23 February 1984

When it isn't prison, it's hell - or at least that's the belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike "Ginger" Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service.

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Home Truths
A Novella

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 29 June 2000

Concerns with a plot for revenge hatched by two writers, Adrian, a distinguished novelist seeking obscurity in a cottage near Gatwick and Sam, a successful scriptwriter who drops in on his old university friend en route to LA.

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Home Truths - A Novella

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 4 November 1999

Successful screenwriter Sam Sharp, fuming about a savage profile of himself in a Sunday newspaper, drops in to see his old university friend, distinguished novelist Adrian Ludlow. Together they decide to take revenge on the interviewer.

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Modern Criticism and Theory

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1996

Takes account of the developments in theoretical contemporary literary criticism. This volume is designed to introduce the reader to the guiding concepts of literary and cultural debate by presenting substantial extracts from the seminal thinkers.

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The British Museum is Falling Down

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 24 February 1983

The Rhythm Method is the curse of young Adam Appleby's life and the cause of his children's. While Adam gestates his thesis in the British Museum, his wife worries at home because her period is late and a fourth little bundle of (expensive) joy seems to be on the way, thanks to 'Vatican Roulette'.

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How Far Can You Go?

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1981

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Thinks...

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1 March 2001

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.

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Therapy

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1996

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Therapy

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1905617

To all appearances, Laurence Passmore is sitting pretty. True, he's almost bald and nicknamed "Tubby", but the TV sitcom he writes keeps the money flowing in, and he has every other material comfort; but what the money can't buy, and what his many therapists can't deliver, is contentment.

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Thinks...

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 20020502

Ralph Messenger is an academic star of language and thought research, Helen Reed is a novelist teaching creative writing to help her overcome her husband's death. Despite huge differences in belief and temperament they begin an affair that has both tragic and comic consequences.

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The Practice of Writing
Essays,Lectures,Reviews and A Diary

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 25 September 1997

In his first critical work since "The Art of Fiction", David Lodge writes principally about Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis and James Joyce, and from there goes on to tackle two questions: the value of creative writing, and the task of dramatizing literary works for television and the stage.

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Ginger, You're Barmy

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date:

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Therapy

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 199911

To all appearances, Laurence Passmore is sitting pretty. True, he's almost bald and nicknamed "Tubby", but the TV sitcom he writes keeps the money flowing in, and he has every other material comfort; but what the money can't buy, and what his many therapists can't deliver, is contentment.

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Author, Author

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 2 September 2004

The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author Henry James, surrounded by his relatives and servants, then loops back to the 1880s to chart the course of his "middle years", focusing on his friendship with the illustrator George Du Maurier and his relationship with American writer Constance Fenimore Woolson.

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Changing Places
A Tale of Two Campuses

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 25 May 1978

When Phillip 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.

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Thinks...

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1 March 2001

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.

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Therapy

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1 May 1995

To all appearances, Laurence Passmore is sitting pretty. True, he's almost bald and nicknamed "Tubby", but the TV sitcom he writes keeps the money flowing in, and he has every other material comfort; but what the money can't buy, and what his many therapists can't deliver, is contentment.

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Deaf Sentence

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Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 4 June 2009

Retired Professor of Linguistics 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.

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Nice Work

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 19890900

Back in Rummidge, scene of "Changing Places", Robyn Penrose, temporary lecturer in English literature and Vic Willcox, MD of Pringle and Sons Industrial Engineering meet when they take part in an "Industry Year" scheme. David Lodge is the author of "The British Museum is Falling Down".

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Write On

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 1988

David Lodge's wit and intellectual verve are evident on every page of this volume, in which he ranges over writers, incl...

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Nice Work

Author: David Lodge
Publication Date: 19 September 1988

Back in Rummidge, scene of "Changing Places", Robyn Penrose, temporary lecturer in English literature and Vic Willcox, MD of Pringle and Sons Industrial Engineering meet when they take part in an "Industry Year" scheme. David Lodge is the author of "The British Museum is Falling Down".

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