Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds — and about themselves.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: »The British Museum is Falling Down» is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted — not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: 'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' — Time Out. Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg. Kath, who left home long ago to work for the American army, introduces her sixteen-year-old brother to a lifestyle that is deliriously fast, furious and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle, the lovely Angelica — the jet-propelled academics are on the move, in the air, on the make, in Small World.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. David Lodge's The British Museum is Falling Down was published in 1965 and is a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: 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 whom Desmond has agreed to help after a typical misunderstanding at a party. But her increasingly…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A witty, tender novel about the travails of old middle age, from a Booker finalist Desmond Bates is a recently retired linguistics professor vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life. Without the purposeful routine of the academic year, he finds his role reduced to that of escort and house-husband while his wife as late-flowering career as the owner of a home design…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Back in Rummidge, scene of Changing Places, Robyn Penrose, temporary lecturer in English literature and Vic Willcox, MD of Pringle and Sons Industrial Engineering meet when they take part in an «Industry Year» scheme.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister Kath invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 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.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Euphoric State University, with its whitestone, sundrenched campus, and England's damp red-brick University of Rummidge have an annual exchange scheme. Normally the exchange passes without concern. But when Philip Swallow swaps with Professor Zapp the Fates play a hand, and the two academics find themselves enmeshed in a spiralling involvement on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune:…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: How far could they go? On the one hand there was the traditional Catholic Church, on the other the siren call of the permissive society. And with the advent of COC (Catholics for an Open Church), the appearance of the pill and the disappearance of hell, it was difficult for Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the others not to rupture their spiritual virginity on their way from the fifties to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: When it isn't prison, it's hell — or at least that's the belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike «Ginger» Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the A-level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path, with his wife Eleanor. Their old university friend Sam Sharp, now a hugely successful screenwriter, drops in on the way to Los Angeles, fuming over a vicious profile of himself by Rottweiler interviewer Fanny Tarrant in a Sunday…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: 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 end of the decade Henry, worried by the failure of his books to sell, resolves to achieve fame…