Small World
Published on 7. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-09-955416-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 the globe, and romance is in the air...
It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air...
Reviews / Votes
The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written * London Review of Books * Ingenious and proliferate plotting...a new comic debacle over every page * The Times * Academic infightings, couplings, touching, funny and frightful set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before * Sunday Telegraph * A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes * Observer *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-955416-5 (9780099554165)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Previous edition
David Lodge
Small World
Book
03/1984
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
€37.32
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Person
David Lodge (CBE)'s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.
He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.