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Malcolm Bradbury

    September 7, 1932 – November 27, 2000

    Malcolm Bradbury was an acclaimed English author and academic, best known for his novels. His works, often set within university life, consistently explore darker themes with a less playful style and language compared to his contemporaries. Bradbury masterfully satirized academic existence, delving into its hypocrisies and complexities through narratives that resonated widely. Beyond his fiction, his insightful literary criticism and extensive television scripting further cemented his profound influence on British literature and media.

    Malcolm Bradbury
    The Modern World
    The Atlas of Literature
    Present Laughter
    The Modern British Novel
    Inside Trading
    Modernism
    • An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy

      Modernism
    • Inside Trading

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      The only full-length stage play by the acclaimed novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury

      Inside Trading
    • An account of the development of the British novel in the 20th century, and a companion volume to the author's "The Modern American Novel". The various main lines are laid out, and the book includes a detailed survey of post-war writing and the scene today.

      The Modern British Novel
    • Present Laughter

      An Anthology of Comic Writing

      • 378 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.8(15)Add rating

      This sparkling anthology offers 29 of the best marriages of comedy and fiction. A deliciously varied collection of comic short stories, representing the cream of twentieth century humour.

      Present Laughter
    • "Focuses on writers and works that are intimately bound up with a place and a time, capturing a town, a city, a region, in its literary heyday."--Jacket.

      The Atlas of Literature
    • This book, in ten succinct essays, examines the ten "greats" of early 20th century literature. In each case the author's most important work is discussed in the context of the author's life, other writings and place in the modernist movement.

      The Modern World
    • The Novel Today

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.4(10)Add rating

      A collection of papers by contemporary novelists considering the authors' side of the debate about the nature of the modern novel. Those contributing include Iris Murdoch, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Philip Roth and John Fowles.

      The Novel Today
    • A monumental critical history that sums up the American literary achievement from Henry James to Thomas Pynchon. Beginning with the 1890s and the seminal novels of Henry James and Theodore Dreiser, this highly acclaimed volume charts the flowering of the American narrative tradition. It takes in Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner; the emergence of Jewish and African-American literatures; and the works of Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, and Kurt Vonnegut. Updated to consider the most important fiction of the 1980s and early 90s, The Modern American Novel is a comprehensive critical history of American literary achievement."

      The modern American novel
    • To the Hermitage

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      3.7(29)Add rating

      To the Hermitage tells two stories. The first is of the narrator, a novelist, on a trip to Stockholm and Russia for an academic seminar called the Diderot Project. The second takes place two hundred years earlier and recreates the journey the French philosopher Denis Diderot made to Russia at the invitation of Catherine the Great, a woman whose influence could change the path of history . . . Malcolm Bradbury's last novel is rich with his satirical wit, but it is also deeply personal and weaves a wonderfully wry self-portrait.

      To the Hermitage
    • Rates of Exchange

      • 310 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.7(145)Add rating

      Een Engelse hoogleraar brengt een officieel bezoek aan een denkbeeldig Oost-Europees land en ondervindt daar het tot in het extreme opgevoerde controlesysteem van een totalitaire staat.

      Rates of Exchange