When Phillip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange.
The Campus Trilogy Series
This series humorously explores cultural clashes and the academic world through the story of two professors who swap teaching positions. We follow their culture shocks and unexpected adventures in foreign lands, leading to many absurd and witty situations. The narrative touches upon themes of student unrest and differing university environments, but primarily offers a smart and amusing look at human destinies and adaptability. It's a work that entertains regardless of one's familiarity with academia.
Recommended Reading Order
Small World
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air...
Nice work
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and short-listed for the Booker Prize, ‘Nice Work’ is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandings.When Vic Wilcox, MD of Pringle’s engineering works, meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. But, in time, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other’s worlds – and about themselves.'A work of immense intelligence, informative, disturbing and diverting' Observer.
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The Campus Trilogy
- 912 pages
- 32 hours of reading
'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' - "Time Out." Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.