Small World

In the second book of his Campus Trilogy, David Lodge chronicles the pursuit of passion and the search for the holy grail of academic perks.

"The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written."  -  London Review Of Books

Lustful Persse McGarrigle flies all over the world in pursuit of the beautiful Angelica as she goes from university conference to university conference, in an academic merry-go-round that culminates at the annual Modern Language Association convention in New York. Almost equally emotionally charged, however, is the political jockeying among professors and critics for the UNESCO chair of Literary Theory, which involves no work and pays $100,000. Tax-free.

"Academic infightings, couplings, touching, funny and frightful set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before."  -  Sunday Telegraph

David Lodge (CBE)’s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. He is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.