Malcolm Bradbury
Author
Language
English
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Description
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson -- who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist -- Lucy is soon at war with...
Author
Series
Spectrum book. Twentieth century views ; S-TC-59
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
This provincial university is filled with characters: "Mr. Eborebelosa, of Africa, who locks himself for long periods in public lavatories; grotesque Louis Bates, hovering between being a working-class genius and a full-time madman; sweet Emma Fielding, who is writing a thesis about fish imagery in Shakespeare's tragedies; [and] Professor Treece, too fogged by his liberal ideas to be a Lucky Jim."--Cover.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Detective Andy Dalziel is an idiosyncratic copper with a penetrating wit and questionable personal habits. Inspector Peter Pascoe is his cultured sidekick, a thoughtful 'New Man' with a degree in Social Sciences, a caring attitude and a sharp brain. When they threw together these contrasting characters, few thought their talents would gel and that, sharing a commitment to justice, they would forge an impressive crime-solving partnership, and a tentative...
