The National Book Award-nominated classic finds hapless Russian migr Timofey Pnin precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s, where he falls victim to subtle academic conspiracies and the manipulations of the narrator. 10,000 first printing.[...]

Throws light on the dominant literary form of two centuries, in its twin aspects as work of art and commodity. The first part of this book traces the history of the author's novel about Henry James. The essays in the second part pursue the themes of genesis, composition and reception in the work of [...]

Helen Reed, a novelist in her early forties, still grieving for her husband who died suddenly a year before, is a visiting teacher of creative writing at a university where Ralph Messenger, a cognitive scientist with a special interest in Artificial Intelligence and an incorrigible womaniser, is dir[...]

'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his mother, David Lodge was four when World Wa[...]