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The Campus Trilogy
The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work | David Lodge
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"A trio of dazzling novels in a comic mode that the author has now made completely his own...a cause for celebration." -The New York Times Book Review David Lodge's three delightfully sophisticated campus novels, now gathered together in one volume, expose the world of academia at its best-and its worst. In Changing Places, we meet Philip Swallow, British lecturer in English at the University of Rummidge, and the flamboyant American Morris Zapp of Euphoric State University, who participate in a professorial exchange program at the close of the tumultuous sixties. Ten years later in Small World, older but not noticeably wiser, they are let loose on the international conference circuit-along with a memorable and somewhat oversexed cast of dozens. And in Nice Work, the leftist feminist Dr. Robyn Penrose at Rummidge University is assigned to shadow the director of a local engineering firm, sparking a collision of ideologies and lifestyles that seems unlikely to foster anything other than mutual antipathy.
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#booktober Day 14: #BooksSetinaSchool David Lodge's Campus novels (Changing Places, Small World, and Nice Work) are all delightfully comedic. These novels are just the right mix of humor, romance and literary sarcasm. (Here's a photo of my gorgeous campus in the throes of autumn.)

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Small World | David Lodge
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This #FunFridayPhoto time is really difficult for me as there are so many campus novels that I adore. I've always loved reading about university. One of my favourites is David Lodge's 'Small world', the sequel to his 'Changing places' and a modern take on the grail myth, here in the setting of a conference on literary theory.

KikiLovesBooks This sounds fun...I'm not one for fantasy, but a novel like this makes me want to give it a whirl. I am interested in the grail myth so... 8y
scripturient @KikiLovesBooks It's not fantasy really. It's more that the scholars at the conference represent certain theories and mythical characters. There is a Percival and an old professor who represents the Fisher King. But it's really a campus novel at heart. :) 8y
KikiLovesBooks I will definitely check it out!!!! Thanks! 8y
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