PENGUIN BOOKS THINKS ... Dávid Lodge was born in London in 1935. He holds a doctorate from the University of Birmingham, where he taught in the English Department from 1960 until 1987, "when he retired to become a full-time writer. He retains the title of Honorary Professor of Modern English...
PENGUIN BOOKS SMALL WORLD Dávid Lodge was born in London in 1935. He was educated at University College London, where he took his BA degree in 1955 and his MA in 1959. In between he did National Service in the British Army. He holds a doctorate from the University of Birmingham, where he taught in...
GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY The Rhythm Method is the curse of Adam Appleby's life and the cause of his children's. As his thesis awaits its birth in the British Museum, his wife studies the thermometer at home. But it seems that 'Vatican Roulette' has failed them again and a fourth little faithful is on...
PENGUIN BOOKS SMALL WORLD Dávid Lodge was born in London in 1935. He was educated at University College London, where he took his BA degree in 1955 and his MA in 1959. In between he did National Service in the British Army. He holds a doctorate from the University of Birmingham, where he taught in...
Monday January 13th, 1986. Victor Wilcox lies awake, in the dark bedroom, waiting for his quartz alarm clock to bleep. It is set to do this at 6.45. How long he has to wait he doesn't know. He could easily find out by groping for the clock, lifting it to his line of vision, and pressing the...
Author's Note
LIKE Changing Places, to which it is a kind of sequel, Small World resembles what is sometimes called the real world, without corresponding exactly to it, and is peopled by figments of the imagination (the name of one of the minor characters has been changed in later editions to...
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Almost the first thing he could remember was his mother standing on a stool in the kitchen, piling tins of food into the top cupboard. On the table there were more tins: pineapple, peaches, little oranges - you could tell by the pictures. He asked her:
- What are all those tins for?
The sun...
Author's Note
Perhaps I should explain, for the benefit of readers who have not been here before, that Rummidge is an imaginary city, with imaginary universities and imaginary factories, inhabited by imaginary people, which occupies, for the purposes of fiction, the space where Birmingham is to...
How It Was
It is just after eight o'clock in the morning of a dark February day, in this year of grace nineteen hundred and fifty-two. An atmospheric depression has combined with the coal smoke from a million chimneys to cast a pall over London. A cold drizzle is falling on the narrow,...
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