Books like Paradise News by David Lodge

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece examines the glittering yet hollow glamour of the Roaring Twenties as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby pursues love, wealth, and identity across the social divide.

Candide: A Tale of Conviviality and Optimism in a Wretched World

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

A novel about Emma Woodhouse, a young woman's struggles with matchmaking, misplaced pride, and the dangers of meddling in others' lives in 18th-century England.

Stephen Dedalus’s coming‑of‑age journey in Dublin frames his transformation from bullied youth to aspiring artist, as he distances himself from conventional life.

Three feckless young men embark on a light‑hearted rowing holiday along the Thames in 1888, creating a series of humorous misadventures.

Joseph Conrad’s *Nostromo* follows a mountain republic’s turbulent politics, exposing the corrosive allure of silver and the moral compromises of capitalism in a South‑American setting.

Thomas Hardy’s bleak final novel follows Jude Fawley, a stonemason from rural Wessex, whose search for faith, love and independence collides with society’s harsh conventions and leads to tragedy.

A first‑century‑turn English novel by E. M. Forster that explores social conventions, class distinctions, and the relationships among families and sisters.

180 p. ; 21 cm.1010L Lexile

A witty, second installment in David Lodge’s academic satire trilogy, “Small World” follows English professors navigating the lingering sexual revolution and the emerging wave of political correctness.

A comic travelogue following the Pickwick Club as they journey across England, observing and humorously critiquing social customs, inns, and the everyday lives of their fellow travelers.

Linda returns from a secretarial job in Frankfurt to reunite with Grant, only to find their relationship uncertain and a new woman in his life. Seeking comfort, she turns to Tony, who offers devotion she cannot love.

A foundling named Tom Jones is raised by a benevolent landowner, growing into a kind-hearted young man whose love affair with a well-born daughter sparks class conflict. The novel, one of the first English-language works, explores themes of prostitution and promiscuity.

A witty comedy set in Swinging London, following Adam Appleby as he navigates daily mishaps, family anxieties and impossible job opportunities while trying to repay his academic debts.

A young English governess arrives in 1950s Venice and falls in love with a nobleman, only to find herself entangled in a romantic rivalry with a glamorous heiress.

A charismatic cognitive science director in a university college falls between his stable marriage and a widowed novelist, leading to revelations about the limits of understanding others.

Een jonge vrouw die door het vergaan van de Titanic in 1912 ouders en verloofde verliest, neemt de zorg voor haar broertjes en zusjes op zich.

A retired linguistics professor copes with encroaching deafness and marital strain when a young student forces him to confront the challenges of aging, mortality, and identity.

"The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday and The Washington Post are now revised, expanded and collected together in book form. The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headings, such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Time-shift, Magical Realism and Symbolism, and each topic is illustrated by a passage or two taken from classic or modern fiction. Drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James and Martin Amis, Jane Austen and Fay Weldon and Henry Fielding and James Joyce, David Lodge makes accessible to the general reader the richness and variety of British and American fiction. Technical terms, such as Interior Monologue, Metafiction, Intertextuality and the Unreliable Narrator, are lucidly explained and their application demonstrated. Bringing to criticism the verve and humour of his own novels, David Lodge has provided essential reading for students of literature, aspirant writers, and anyone who wishes to understand how literature works."--Publisher's website.