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A Man of Parts

Product Description: A riveting novel about the remarkable life—and many loves—of author H. G. Wells H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact with the most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored and disillusioned in his own utopian visions...read more

By David Lodge

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9780143122098 | Penguin USA, November 27, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A riveting novel about the remarkable life—and many loves—of author H.

The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places/ Small World/ Nice Work

Product Description: "A trio of dazzling novels in a comic mode that the author has now made completely his own...a cause for celebration." -The New York Times Book ReviewDavid Lodge's three delightfully sophisticated campus novels, now gathered together in one volume, expose the world of academia at its best-and its worst...read more

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9780143120209 | 1 edition (Penguin USA, October 4, 2011), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: "A trio of dazzling novels in a comic mode that the author has now made completely his own.

A Man of Parts: A Novel of H. G. Wells

Product Description: A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and many loves-of author H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact with the most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored and disillusioned in his own utopian visions...read more

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9780670022984 | Viking Pr, September 15, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and many loves-of author H.

Readers: Vintage People on Photo Postcards

Product Description: To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Library asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards...read more

By David Lodge (foreword by) and Tom Phillips

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9781851243594 | Bodleian Library, February 28, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Library asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards.

The Knot of Vipers

Product Description: The masterpiece of one of the greatest modern Catholic writers A novel told in the form of a confessional letter, this is the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered, aging lawyer who has spread his misery to his entire estranged family...read more

By David Lodge (foreword by) and Francois Mauriac

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9780956294760 | Reprint edition (Midpoint Trade Books Inc, July 9, 2010), cover price $14.50 | About this edition: The masterpiece of one of the greatest modern Catholic writers A novel told in the form of a confessional letter, this is the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered, aging lawyer who has spread his misery to his entire estranged family.

The Conclave

By David Lodge (foreword by)

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9780955731280 | Midpoint Trade Books Inc, May 15, 2009, cover price $14.95

Deaf Sentence

Product Description: The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodge's fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-sixties...read more

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9780670019922 | Viking Pr, September 18, 2008, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A witty, tender novel about the travails of old middle age, from a Booker finalistDesmond Bates is a recently retired linguistics professor vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life.

9781846551673 | Vintage Uk, May 1, 2008, cover price $32.05 | About this edition: Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man’s effort to come to terms with deafness, ageing and mortality, and the comedy and tragedy of human lives.

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9780143116059 | Penguin USA, September 29, 2009, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodge's fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon.

The Year of Henry James: The Story of a Novel

Traces the conception, writing and publication of the author's book. This work offers psychological and literary insights which suggests nothing less than a short story by the Great Master, Henry James, himself.

By David Lodge

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9780141026800 | Penguin Global, January 9, 2008, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Traces the conception, writing and publication of the author's book.

Daisy Miller: A Study

Product Description: Daisy Miller, a young woman from Schenectady, New York, arrives in Switzerland with her mother and younger brother to visit her aunt. They are on holiday from the United States where her father is a successful businessman, a member of the nouveau riche...read more

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9781595474889 | Nuvision Pubns, April 30, 2008, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Daisy Miller, a young woman from Schenectady, New York, arrives in Switzerland with her mother and younger brother to visit her aunt.

9780141441344 | Penguin Classics, December 18, 2007, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve.

9781408600856 | Lightning Source Inc, October 30, 2007, cover price $26.45 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Liar's Landscape: Collected Writing from a Storyteller's Life

Product Description: This final volume from the great novelist and critic "is essential reading for all admirers of Malcolm Bradbury and, for those who don't know his work, an invaluable sampler of his worldly-wise humor and satirical wit." —IndependentWhen Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left behind a lifetime's work: published and unpublished; fiction and nonfiction; short stories and novels; completed work and work in progress...read more

By Dominic Bradbury (editor), Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge (other contributor)

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9780330435321 | Picador, October 30, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: When Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left behind a lifetime's work; some of it published and some of it not; short stories; and more.

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9780330435338 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, March 2, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This final volume from the great novelist and critic "is essential reading for all admirers of Malcolm Bradbury and, for those who don't know his work, an invaluable sampler of his worldly-wise humor and satirical wit.

The Slaves of Solitude

Product Description: England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has become a way of life. Heroic resistance is old hat. Everything is in short supply, and tempers are even shorter. Overwhelmed by the terrors and rigors of the Blitz, middle-aged Miss Roach has retreated to the relative safety and stupefying boredom of the suburban town of Thames Lockdon, where she rents a room in a boarding house run by Mrs...read more

By Patrick Hamilton and David Lodge (introduced by)

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9781590172209 | New York Review of Books, February 20, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has become a way of life.

The Year of Henry James: The Story of a Novel With Other Essays on the Genesis, Composition and Reception of Literary Fiction

Throws light on the dominant literary form of two centuries, in its twin aspects as work of art and commodity. The first part of this book traces the history of the author's novel about Henry James. The essays in the second part pursue the themes of genesis, composition and reception in the work of other novelists.

By David Lodge

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9781846550034 | Random House Uk Ltd, October 30, 2006, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Throws light on the dominant literary form of two centuries, in its twin aspects as work of art and commodity.

Trapos Sucios / Home Truths

Bearing traces of its first incarnation as a stage play, a lighthearted and timely farce skewers the media's voracious relationship with celebrity culture, and, at the same time, examines a writer's responsibility to his talent.

By David Lodge

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9788433968241 | Editorial Anagrama, January 30, 2006, cover price $11.80 | About this edition: Bearing traces of its first incarnation as a stage play, a lighthearted and timely farce skewers the media's voracious relationship with celebrity culture, and, at the same time, examines a writer's responsibility to his talent.

Author, Author

Set against the colorful backdrop of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England, this evocative tale of literary ambition, rivalry, and creativity follows the public career and private life of Henry James, detailing his friendship with George Du Maurier, complex relationship with American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, and final illness. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

By David Lodge

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9780670033492 | Viking Pr, October 7, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Set against the backdrop of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England, this tale of literary ambition, rivalry, and creativity follows the public career and private life of Henry James.

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9780143036098 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 29, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Set against the colorful backdrop of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England, this evocative tale of literary ambition, rivalry, and creativity follows the public career and private life of Henry James, detailing his friendship with George Du Maurier, complex relationship with American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, and final illness.

La conciencia y la novela/ The Conscience and the novel

By David Lodge

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9788483076101 | Ediciones Peninsula, September 1, 2004, cover price $42.95

Consciousness & the Novel: Connected Essays

Product Description: Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping--even rediscovery--by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. As the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature, David Lodge suggests, may offer a kind of understanding that is complementary, not opposed, to scientific knowledge...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Lodge

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9780674009493 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Identifies literature as the richest record of human consciousness, revealing why it is not inconsistent with scientific knowledge and explaining through a series of essays on classic writers what novels can tell readers about the creative writing process.

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9780674013773 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 15, 2004, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping--even rediscovery--by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology.

Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel

Product Description: Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the time of its first publication in 1966 - and lucid exposition meant that the work proved a landmark of literary criticism, not least because it succeeded in communicating a radically new vision of English literature to a readership that reached well beyond the bounds of the academy...read more

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9780415290029 | Routledge, February 1, 2003, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Now including a new introduction from the author, this major work from the pen of one of England's finest living writers is essential reading for all those who care about the creation and appreciation of literature.

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9780415290036 | Routledge, February 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge.

Thinks

The growing relationship between two very different individuals--Ralph Messenger, the director of the Holt Belling Center for Cognitive Science and expert on artificial intelligence, and Helen Reed, a recently widowed novelist--is chronicled in the alternating voices of the two characters. By the author of Therapy. Reprint.

By David Lodge

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9780670899845 | Viking Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The growing relationship between two very different individuals--Ralph Messenger, an expert on artificial intelligence, and Helen Reed, a recently widowed novelist--is chronicled in the alternating voices of the two characters.

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9780142000861 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The growing relationship between two very different individuals--Ralph Messenger, the director of the Holt Belling Center for Cognitive Science and expert on artificial intelligence, and Helen Reed, a recently widowed novelist--is chronicled in the alternating voices of the two characters.

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9781841972596 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, November 1, 2001), cover price $102.00 | About this edition: The novels of David Lodge have earned comparisons to the fiction of John Updike and Philip Roth and established him as "a cult figure on both sides of the Atlantic" (The New York Times).

Home Truths: A Novella

Living in semi-retirement with his wife in an isolated cottage, Adrian Ludlow, a distinguished English novelist, risks his much-valued privacy when he joins forces with Sam Sharp, a screenwriter and old friend from his college days, to plot revenge on journalist Fanny Tarrant, after a scathing profile devastates Sam. Original.

By David Lodge

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9780140291803 | Penguin USA, June 1, 2000, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Living in semi-retirement in an isolated cottage, Adrian Ludlow, a distinguished English novelist, risks his valued privacy when he joins forces with Sam Sharp, a screenwriter and old friend from his college days, to plot revenge on journalist Fanny Tarrant.

Therapy

Product Description: Faced with a mid-life crisis, a successful, overweight television writer embarks on a quest for the answer to his spiritual anxiety and encounters therapists, the police, Soren Kierkegaard, and strange new bedfellows. By the author of Small World.

By David Lodge

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9780786205561 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 1, 1996), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Casper Kaplan is a psychologist with personal problems and difficult clients, including Julian, an obsessive epileptic, and Maureen, a professor who taunts Casper with dragon lady attire and lewd remarks and instigates an affair with Julian that is ultimately life-threatening

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9780753109779 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, May 30, 2000), cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Faced with a mid-life crisis, a successful, overweight television writer embarks on a quest for the answer to his spiritual anxiety and encounters therapists, the police, Soren Kierkegaard, and strange new bedfellows.

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9781850898795 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, April 1, 1998), cover price $89.95 | About this edition: A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy.

9780140863567 | Penguin/Highbridge, July 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Faced with a mid-life crisis, a successful London television writer who embarks on a quest to sooth his spiritual anxiety finds himself involved with the police and obsessed with existentialism.

Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader

Product Description: This is the widely anticipated new edition of Lodge and Wood’s classic introduction to the leading thinkers in literary criticism.Literary criticism is taught as a core part of every English degree –– this book will be widely adopted on these courses The 'Lodge' name is hugely recognised by academic and general reader alik...read more

By David Lodge (editor)

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9780582784543 | 3 edition (Longman Pub Group, February 13, 2008), cover price $76.20 | About this edition: This is the widely anticipated new edition of Lodge and Wood’s classic introduction to the leading thinkers in literary criticism.

9780582312876 | 2 rev exp edition (Longman Pub Group, August 1, 1999), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: 'In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right.

9780582494602 | Reprint edition (Longman Pub Group, January 1, 1991), cover price $61.00 | About this edition: This reader is designed as a companion volume and is some sense, sequel to David Lodge's 20th Century Literary Criticism-A Reader.

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

By David Lodge (introduced by) and Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov

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9780141800547 | Abridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, January 1, 1999), cover price $3.00

Paradise News

Product Description: After flying to Hawaii to reunite his querulous parent with a long-forgotten, bed-ridden aunt, Bernard Walsh discovers the possibilities of life and love through a chance encounter.

By David Lodge

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9781560544500 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 1, 1992), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: After flying to Hawaii to reunite his querulous parent with a long-forgotten, bed-ridden aunt, Bernard Walsh discovers the possibilities of life and love through a chance encounter

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9781856957755 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, April 1, 1998), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: After flying to Hawaii to reunite his querulous parent with a long-forgotten, bed-ridden aunt, Bernard Walsh discovers the possibilities of life and love through a chance encounter.

The Practice of Writing

Product Description: When it comes to the craft of writing, bestselling novelist David Lodge finds much to celebrate, analyze, and confess. In this absorbing collection of seventeen essays he ponders the work of writers he particularly admires, current and past trends in literary style, and the mechanics of the craft itself...read more

By David Lodge

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9780713991734 | Allen Lane, January 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Seventeen essays by the critic and novelist celebrate the contributions of his favorite authors, including D.

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9780140261066 | Penguin USA, November 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: When it comes to the craft of writing, bestselling novelist David Lodge finds much to celebrate, analyze, and confess.

9789990020793 | Penguin USA, November 1, 1997, cover price $0.02

Therapy: A Novel

the author of Small World offers a funny, compassionate portrayal of a balding, chubby television writer whose creeping restlessness leads to an obsession with existentialism, brushes with the police, and strange bedfellows. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. NYT.

By David Lodge

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9780670863587 | Viking Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Faced with a mid-life crisis, a successful, overweight television writer embarks on a quest for the answer to his spiritual anxiety and encounters therapists, the police, Soren Kierkegaard, and strange new bedfellows

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9780140249002 | Penguin USA, July 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Faced with a mid-life crisis, a successful, overweight television writer embarks on a quest for the answer to his spiritual anxiety and encounters therapists, the police, Soren Kierkegaard, and strange new bedfellows

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