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The Campus Trilogy

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.

The Campus Trilogy
Nice work
Small World
The Campus Trilogy
Changing Places

Recommended Reading Order

  1. 1

    Changing Places

    A tale of two campuses

    • 256 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
    4.1(842)Add rating

    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.

    Changing Places
  2. 2

    Small World

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.9(5026)Add rating

    Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica - the jet-propelled academics are on the move, in the air, in "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.

    Small World
  3. 3

    Nice work

    • 384 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    3.9(4764)Add rating

    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.

    Nice work
  • The Campus Trilogy

    • 912 pages
    • 32 hours of reading
    4.3(391)Add rating

    '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.

    The Campus Trilogy
  • The Campus Trilogy

    Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

    • 832 pages
    • 30 hours of reading
    4.0(97)Add rating

    Set in the academic world, this collection features three humorous novels that explore the complexities of university life. In Changing Places, British lecturer Philip Swallow and American Morris Zapp swap roles, navigating cultural clashes in the late sixties. Small World follows their misadventures at international conferences, introducing a colorful ensemble of characters. Nice Work presents Dr. Robyn Penrose, who finds herself at odds with a local business director, highlighting the tensions between differing ideologies and lifestyles.

    The Campus Trilogy