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A Man of Parts by David Lodge
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, 'the man who invented tomor ...Show more
A Man of Parts by David Lodge
$32.95 AUD
Category: 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
$22.95 AUD
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
Consciousness and the Novel by David Lodge
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
'The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' Observer How does the novel represent human consciousness on the page? In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the last 200 years - from Charles Dickens to Martin Amis, Hen ...Show more
Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays by David Lodge
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
Daisy Miller a Study by David (INT) David (EDT); Lodge Henry; Lodge James
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
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. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conv ...Show more
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
$32.95 AUD
Category: 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
$24.95 AUD
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
How Far Can You Go by David Lodge
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow. On the one hand there's Sex and then the Pill, on the other there is the traditi ...Show more
Howards End by David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Lives in Writing by David Lodge
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Reading Level: very good
This is a collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary. In thes ...Show more
Lives in Writing by David Lodge
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This is a collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary. In thes ...Show more