Small World: An Academic Romance Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Small World: An Academic Romance Book

The unbridled greed, pettiness, buffoonery and intellectual gobbledygook in the world of higher scholarship are the topics of this thorough and thoroughly funny roman a' English department. It's interesting for a couple of reasons, aside from its humor and spoofiness: it's an insider's view of things -- always the best kind -- and it takes its old-fashioned time telling a story, complete with reasonable digressions about the state of literary criticism and what may or may not be a realistic view of the academic life. Read More

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  • Product Description

    Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance". From the author of the award-winning Changing Places.

  • 0025740601
  • 9780025740600
  • David Lodge
  • 1 March 1985
  • Macmillan Pub Co
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 338
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