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Malcolm Bradbury
‘The funniest and best-written novel I have seen for a very long time’ Auberon Waugh
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Saul Bellow
Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still…
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E.M. Forster,Malcolm Bradbury
Visiting Florence with her cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional, lower-class Mr Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England, Lucy becomes engaged to…
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George Orwell
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and…
Ford Madox Ford
Single novel originally published in 4 parts between 1924-1928.
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Joseph Heller
Depicts the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in Jay Gatsby’s mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden…
The only full-length stage play by the acclaimed novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury
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Looks at the Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow as a leading figure in the development of contemporary fiction, one whose work has, however, been challenged by more experimental, ‘post-modern’ developments…
Explosively funny’ Daily Telegraph
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‘The funniest book ever written’ Auberon Waugh
It is funny, exact - and pretty bloody serious’ Observer
A master not only of language and comedy but of feeling too’ Sunday Times
A wickedly funny satire - ‘the work of a master, and a master not only of language and comedy, but of feeling too’ Sunday Times
First published as Phogey! [or], how to have class in a classless society … 1960 –Title page verso.
Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1965.
Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 1987.
Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1992.
A collection of short stories, centred around academics, psychiatrists and media figures. Accompanying them are nine of Bradbury’s playful parodies - among them the fifth volume of Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet…
A collection of the finest short stories from our best loved authors, including Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene, William Golding, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Muriel Spark, J G Ballard, William Trevor…
John Updike
Collected in one volume for the first time–and featuring a final, series-capping story, His Oeuvre –John Updike’s Bech stories have been a fixture of the American literary imagination since they…
M. Bradbury
This first volume of Bradbury’s collected critical writings concentrates on British fiction since 1945. It is written from the center of the field it surveys: Bradbury is a writer who…
Malcolm Bradbury,Richard Ruland
From a modernist/postmodernist perspective, this title addresses questions of literary and cultural nationalism. It reveals that since 17th century, American writing has reflected the political and historical climate and helped…
An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy
Mark Twain
Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two…
Malcolm Bradbury (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of East Anglia)
The Modern American Novel provides a survey of the fictional scene from the 1890s to the early 1990s. In this study, Malcolm Bradbury traces the development of naturalism and impressionism…
Richard Ruland,Malcolm Bradbury,Linda Wagner-Martin
The role of the third surveyor often lacks clarity even sometimes to those in the industry. The Role of the Third Surveyor under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 aims…
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Brita Bradbury
This ghost story is set on the wild Atlantic coast of North Devon and told through the eyes of Jenny, a girl of nearly nineteen, whose recently deceased grandmother Mary…
