The British Museum Is Falling Down

david lodge

In following the teachings of the Catholic Church concerning birth control, Adam Appleby a graduate student with a wife and three children faces difficult choices

Genres fictionhumorbritish literaturecontemporarynovelscomedy20th centuryliteratureenglish literaturereligion

182 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1965

Places

london england,

This edition

Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Published: September 5, 1989 by Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140124194
ASIN: 0140124195
Language: English

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Clare

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Dominic Kitchen

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Barbara

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Edward

Servant to Arwin Mac Alpin. Edwards family has served Arwin for generations. Edward is also an alchemist, and his creations have been known to be effective, yet unpredictable in sometimes disastrous ways.more...
Adam Appleby

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Camel

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About the author

David John Lodge was an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The second two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960). Lodge also wrote television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. His edition of Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1972) includes essays on 20th-century writers such as T.S. Eliot. In 1992, he published The Art of Fiction, a collection of essays on literary techniques with illustrative examples from great authors, such as Point of View (Henry James), The Stream of Consciousness (Virginia Woolf) and Interior Monologue (James Joyce), beginning with Beginning and ending with Ending.