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A David Lodge Trilogy by David Lodge (Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature, Birmingham University)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Contains three novels -
A Man of Parts by David Lodge
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 tomor ...Show more
A Man of Parts by David Lodge
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'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 ...Show more
Author, Author! by David Lodge
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Framed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry James's last illness, Author, Author begins in the early 1880s, describing James's friendship with the genial Punch artist, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson. At the e ...Show more
Author, Author: A Novel by David Lodge
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
A captivating new historical novel from one of our most successful popular literary novelists.In David Lodge's last novel, Thinks... the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage, sometimes literally. The story begins in December 1915, wit ...Show more
Changing Places by David Lodge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
When Philip 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: students, colleagues, ev ...Show more
Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays by David Lodge
$29.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
As the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature may offer a kind of understanding that is complementary, not opposed, to scientific knowledge. Lodge explores the representation of human consciousness in fiction, mainly English and American, in the light of recent investigations in scien ...Show more
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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. And then there's Alex, a student who ...Show more
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the purposeful routine of the academic year, and has lost his appetite for research. His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to ...Show more
Howards End by David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics, | Reading Level: very good
In "Howard's End", E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty. The sou ...Show more
Lives in Writing by David Lodge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
This is a collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary. In thes ...Show more
Lives in Writing by David Lodge
$49.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
This is a collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary. In thes ...Show more