David Lodge
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English
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The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodge's fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-sixties. Vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life, Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a seemingly personable young American female student...
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English
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George Eliot's fiction debut work contains three stories of the lives of clergymen, with the aim of disclosing the value hidden in the commonplace. "The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" portrays a character who is hard to like and easy to ridicule. "Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story," brings forth conflicting value systems revolving around a young woman, Caterina, and two men. "Janet's Repentance" is an account of conversion from sinfulness to righteousness...
Author
Language
English
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A hilarious send-up of academic life, intellectual fashion, sex, and marriage. Two English professors know they'll be swapping class rosters, but what they don't know is that in a wildly spiraling transatlantic involvement they'll soon be swapping students, colleagues, and even wives. First book in a trilogy.
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Language
English
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A house and its exquisite antique furnishings and artwork become the source of a protracted struggle involving the proud and imperious Mrs. Gereth, her amiable son, Owen, his philistine fiancée, Mona Brigstock, and the sensitive Fleda Vetch, whose moral judgment is tested by her conflicting allegiances.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A spoof on today's obsession with health. Unwilling to accept the aches and pains of old age, Laurence Passmore, 58, an English TV writer, rushes from one doctor to another, becoming progressively depressed with the result that his marriage and work suffer. Eventually he finds solace in religion.
11) Nice work
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Vic and Robyn's meeting triggers a comic head-on collision of life-styles and ideologies, motives and methods, that forces each to make some discoveries about their worlds and themselves.
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"David Lodge's three delightfully sophisticated campus novels, now gathered together for the first time in the U.S. 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 of Euphoric State University, who participate in a professorial exchange program at the close of the tumultuous sixties....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like sharks. The obsequious Pecksniff, whit his daughters,...
