Small World
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Author(s)David Lodge
PublisherPenguin Books
ISBN / ASIN0140244867
ISBN-139780140244861
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank753,814
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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.