A David Lodge Trilogy : Changing Places', 'Small World', 'Nice Work

By David Lodge

Book Overview

"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 Review David Lodge's three delightfully sophisticated... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140172971
• ISBN13: 9780140172973
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Length: 912 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.4" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

A Magnificent Cross Cultural Comedy of Errors

If you know the Brits and the unabashed Americans, you will love this satiric view of both, from both sides of The Pond. Very funny, gently (and not so gently) lambasting caricatures of Englishness and American Exceptionalism. From quiet chuckles to laugh-out-loud, tears-running-down-your-face funny.

a trip

As one who once was impoverished in a New Haven boarding house desperately trying to come up with an exceptional paper in English seminar, I am satisfied to have failed and moved on to law and managing real estate. These novels are delightful and tours de force of narrative. Anyone will enjoy them, but it helps to have had a touch with academe. Will also provide council to those outside wondering about paying for their daughter's further education. I say save the money for dance lessons.

Great send -up of academia!

David Lodge's campus novel trilogy are three very clever novels. The first (Changing Places)is a comic analysis of British and American university systems, as well as a parody of narrative structures (with each chapter written in a different style). The second (Small World) is a comic take on academic conferences, as well as a parody of Arthurian legend. The third (Nice Work) mocks both the 19th-century British industrial novel and literary theory. These are funny books for any literate reader, but are hilarious for anyone who has experience in academia!