The British Museum is falling down
By: David Lodge ; with an introduction by the author.
Series: A King Penguin
Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: British Museum -- Fiction.; Birth control -- Fiction.; London (England) -- Fiction.
Description: Adam Appleby begins another day of research in the Reading Room of the British Museum. He is a graduate student in literature and a practicing Catholic in the days before the pill. His is married, has three children, and is not looking forward to the possibility of a fourth. On a foggy day in London, work and life conspire against him as he bumbles his way through series of misadventures. It is a hilarious and heartfelt tour of academia.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by MacGibbon & Kee, 1965"--T.p. verso.