The British Museum Is Falling Down

by David Lodge

Book Overview

A graduate student in literature and a practicing Catholic, Adam Appleby is also married and has three children. On this foggy day in London, work and life conspire to propel Adam through a series of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140124195
• ISBN13: 9780140124194
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

You MUST Read This!

David Lodge is a favorite author of mine, and his other three immensely entertaining and funny novels are Paradise News, Therapy, and Small World.Lodge is a craftsman, and it is sheer pleasure to read his sentences. His knowledge of and facility with Anglo-Catholicism is unique, especially since he can turn it into laugh-out-loud comedy. His characters are well developed and garner your sympathy, and he leaves you with a rare sense of our humanity and shared irony. Again, he is a craftsman, and his writing is superb. This novel is short and especially funny. Don't miss it!

You MUST Read This!

David Lodge is a favorite author of mine, and his other two immensely entertaining and funny novels are Paradise News and Small World.Lodge is a craftsman, and it is sheer pleasure to read his sentences. His knowledge of and facility with Anglo-Catholicism is unique, especially since he can turn it into laugh-out-loud comedy. His characters are well developed and garner your sympathy, and he leaves you with a rare sense of our humanity and shared irony. Again, he is a craftsman, and his writing is superb. This novel is short and especially funny. Don't miss it!

one of the best books I have ever read!

Adam Appleby feels the terrible Catholic anxiety of another unwished pregnancy. Throughout an entire day of mirabulant, fascinating experiences one discovers how David Lodge portrays the difficulties people had to overcome on those days when just thinking of the pill was a venial sin. I recommend it!

Hilarious; wonderful diversion from academic work

This short novel is a great way to relieve the anxiety of academic work. I recommend that all academics and students read it about once a year to keep sane. Hard to believe the author's claim that it is not autobiographical...

Flustered student attempts to focus

Frazzled, brainy, and distractable doctoral candidate Adam Appleby spends a day (among many) in the Reading Room of the British Museum. His wife is home with their young children. This clever, playful, and sweet novel contains in it parodies of Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Conrad, Kafka, Hemingway, Graham Greene, and others. (They're named in Lodge's introduction to the recent edition.) Written in 1965; one of Lodge's earliest novels.