Small World

Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World.

It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air...

“The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written”

"" London Review of Books "Ingenious and proliferate plotting...a new comic debacle over every pages " The Times "Academic infightings, couplings touching, funny and frightful, set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before" Sunday Telegraph "A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes" Observer

David Lodge's novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Thinks..., Author, Author and, most recently, Deaf Sentence. He has also written stage plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction, Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.

'Ingenious and proliferate plotting...a new comic debacle over every pages' The Times Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air... 'Academic infightings, couplings touching, funny and frightful, set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before' Sunday Telegraph 'A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes' Observer

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