Small World: An Academic Romance - Hardcover

Lodge, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025740601 ISBN 13: 9780025740600

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1985

Synopsis

Takes a comic look at today's world of itinerant literary scholars, in which a no-holds-barred quest for an especially desired academic prize prompts a group of professors to less-than-professional behavior

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Review:

The unbridled greed, pettiness, buffoonery and intellectual gobbledygook in the world of higher scholarship are the topics of this thorough and thoroughly funny roman a' English department. It's interesting for a couple of reasons, aside from its humor and spoofiness: it's an insider's view of things -- always the best kind -- and it takes its old-fashioned time telling a story, complete with reasonable digressions about the state of literary criticism and what may or may not be a realistic view of the academic life.

About the Author:

David Lodge is the author of ten previous novels, a trilogy of plays and a novella. He has also written stage plays screenplays and numerous works of literary criticism. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages. He is Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where he taught for many years, and lives in that city. David Lodge’s books have sold over 2.5 million copies.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0025740601
• ISBN 13: 9780025740600
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338