Book Cover The British Museum Is Falling Down

The British Museum Is Falling Down

of David Lodge

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Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around...And that, precisely, is the dilemma that preoccupies Adam Appleby as he begins another day of research in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Adam is a graduate student in literature and a practicing Catholic in the days before the Pill. He is also married, has three children, and is not looking forward to the possiblity of a fourth.On this foggy day in London, however, work and life conspire against him. As Adam makes his bumbling way through a series of misadventures that do little to alleviate his anxiety, the reader is treated to a hilarious and heartfelt tour of academia that only David Lodge could have created.

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Fiction Fiction Humor British Literature Contemporary Novels 20th Century Literature Comedy English Literature Religion

Main Characters

Clare Dominic Kitchen Barbara Edward Adam Appleby Camel Francis Maple Padre Wildfire Pond Señora Green Padre Finbar Profesor Briggs Profesor Bane

Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 182 pages
  • Publisher Penguin Books
  • Publication Date September 5th 1989
  • First Publication 10/30/65
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780140124194
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Fiction
  • Scenario ['London, England']

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