num_pages: 230
description: A comic novel which explores the adventures of Howard Kirk, the most promiscuous and radical Marxist tutor at a fashionable campus university. The author also wrote "Rates of Exchange" and "Eating People is Wrong".
language: English
title: The History Man
titlecomplete: The History Man
characters: Howard Kirk, Flora Beniform
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Academia
ratings_count: 1777
publisher: Penguin