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A Man of Parts by David Lodge
39.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Changing Places by David Lodge
29.99 NZD
Category: General 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: Non-Fiction | 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
36.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
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
Howards End by David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster
30.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Scenes of Academic Life by David Lodge
4.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin 70 Years | Reading Level: very good
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books ...Show more
Small World by David Lodge
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of ...Show more
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