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Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) is a humorous campus novel by the British writer David Lodge. It is the second book of Lodge's "Campus Trilogy", after Changing Places (1975) and before Nice Work (1988).Small World uses the main characters Read More..

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Description	Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) is a humorous campus novel by the British writer David Lodge. It is the second book of Lodge's "Campus Trilogy", after Changing Places (1975) and before Nice Work (1988).Small World uses the main characters (Professors Philip Swallow and Morris Zapp and their wives) from Changing Places and adds many new ones. It follows them around the international circuit of academic literary conferences. It is highly, and self-reflexively, allusive to quests for the Holy Grail, especially to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Characters discuss the romance and aspects of that genre in a way that comments directly on the action in the book, and an important (but physically and intellectually impotent) literary theorist is named Arthur Kingfisher in direct reference to Arthurian legend and the Fisher King.Small World was turned into a six-hour miniseries, Small World, for British television in 1988.
Description	Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) is a humorous campus novel by the British writer David Lodge. It is the second book of Lodge's "Campus Trilogy", after Changing Places (1975) and before Nice Work (1988).Small World uses the main characters (Professors Philip Swallow and Morris Zapp and their wives) from Changing Places and adds many new ones. It follows them around the international circuit of academic literary conferences. It is highly, and self-reflexively, allusive to quests for the Holy Grail, especially to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Characters discuss the romance and aspects of that genre in a way that comments directly on the action in the book, and an important (but physically and intellectually impotent) literary theorist is named Arthur Kingfisher in direct reference to Arthurian legend and the Fisher King.Small World was turned into a six-hour miniseries, Small World, for British television in 1988.

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Name	Small World: An Academic Romance
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Authors	David Lodge
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Genre	Campus novel
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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Pages	339 pp (hardcover)
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Media_type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
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Isbn	0-436-25663-0
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Oclc	10513214
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Publisher	Secker & Warburg
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