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Description edit
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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Persse Mcgarrigle: Add a description of this character.
- Morris Zapp
- Angelica
- Philip
- Hilary
- Angelica Pabst
- Philip Swallow
- Fulvia Morgana
- Hilary Swallow
- Desiree
- Rodney Wainwright
- Bernadette
- Ronald Frobisher
- Robin Dempsey
- Bernadette McGarrigle
- Cheryl Summerbee
- Felix Skinner
- Akira
- Thelma Ringbaum
- Howard Ringbaum
- Mrs Simpson
- Siegfried Von Turpitz
- Percy
- T. S. Eliot
- Josh Collins
- John
- Akbil Borak
- Michel Tardieu
- Martineau Hall
- Von Turpitz
- Jane Austen
- William Hazlitt
- Ernesto
- Joy Simpson
- Rupert Sutcliffe
- Bob Busby
- Akbil
- Angie
- Alice
- Sandra Dix
- Textel
- Arthur Kingfisher
- Rudyard Parkinson
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- Heathrow
- Rummidge
- Ankara
- Turkey
- Europe
- Jerusalem
- Limerick
- Amsterdam
- England
- Tokyo
- America
- Chicago
- Lausanne
- New York
- Vienna
- Istanbul
- Darlington
- Ireland
- Honolulu
- Soho
- Paris
- Australia
- Geneva
- Dublin
- Los Angeles
- Cooktown
- Heidelberg
- Cambridge
- Hilton
- Rome
- Berlin
- Queensland
- Boots
- Sydney
- United States
- Zurich
- Padua
- Sligo
- Israel
- Korea
- Vancouver
- Hazlitt
- Genoa
- Rurmnidge
- Italy
- Bosphorus
- Manhattan
- Asia
- Bellagio
First Sentence edit
"APRIL is the cruellest month." Persse McGarrigle quoted silently to himself, gazing through grimy windowpanes at the unseasonable snow crusting the laws and flowerbeds of the Rummidge campus.
Authors & Contributors edit
- David Lodge (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Country: England
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0436256630
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Country: England
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0436256630
Page Count: 352
Awards edit
- Man Booker Prize (Finalist, 1984, Shortlisted)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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