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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Unfolding the astonishing life story of H.G. Wells, David Lodge paints a portrait of a man who embodied as many contradictions as he had talents: a socialist who enjoyed his affluence, a Darwinian evolutionist imbued with religious idealism and an acclaimed novelist who turned against the literary novel.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A nameless man - who has fallen out of love with life - refuses to get out of bed and becomes an unlikely local celebrity; four university friends travel to Ibiza for their first holiday away together and sex is very much on everyone's mind; a writer embarks on composing a short story at a holiday resort in the French Riviera surrounded by topless women only for the tale to take an unfortunate turn; and a young woman is desperate to find a new fiance...
Author
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother, David Lodge was four when World War II began and grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change, giving him plenty to write about in his distinguished career. In this memoir of his life up to the publication of his breakthrough book, 'Changing Places', David looks back...
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The annual exchange scheme usually passes without concern. But when Philip Swallow swaps with Professor Zapp the fates play a hand, and the two academics find themselves enmeshed in a spiralling involvement on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. He makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader.