David Lodge
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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
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When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. But his daily discontent is nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss, which is a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment. In the popular imagination, he observes, deafness is comic, as blindness is tragic, but for the deaf person himself it is no joke. It is through his deafness...
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Mrs. Gareth is the widowed chatelaine of Poynton. She is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her son Owen and his lovely, but utterly philistine fiancee. When she discovers that her young friend Fleda Vetch is secretly in love with Owen, she thrusts Fleda into the battle line. The power struggle between the three women leaves Owen vacillating. Fleda risks betraying, and being betrayed by, all that she holds most dear.
5) Howard's End
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Considered by many to be E.M. Forster's greatest novel, Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of "telegrams and anger." When the elder Mrs. Wilcox dies and her family discovers she has left their country home-Howards End-to one of the Schlegel sisters, a...
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A spoof on today's obsession with health. Unwilling to accept the aches and pains of old age, Laurence Passmore, 58, an English TV writer, rushes from one doctor to another, becoming progressively depressed with the result that his marriage and work suffer. Eventually he finds solace in religion.
17) Souls and bodies
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A sophisticated, satirical look at a group of British Roman Catholics follows their misadventures through the sexual revolution, marital problems, and crises of faith, from university days to the seventies.
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Adam Appleby begins another day of research in the Reading Room of the British Museum. He is a graduate student in literature and a practicing Catholic in the days before the pill. His is married, has three children, and is not looking forward to the possibility of a fourth. On a foggy day in London, work and life conspire against him as he bumbles his way through series of misadventures. It is a hilarious and heartfelt tour of academia.
