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  1. The British Museum is Falling Down ( 1965) is a comic novel by British author David Lodge about a 25-year-old poverty-stricken student of English literature who, rather than work on his thesis (entitled "The Structure of Long Sentences in Three Modern English Novels") in the reading room of the British Museum, is distracted time and again from ...

    • David Lodge
    • 1965
  2. The British Museum is Falling Down: timidly parodical, quirky British humor mimicking Modern literary styles while betraying scrimpy style of its own. Faintly quaint, or quaintly faint. A cross-pollination of problems attendant upon questions of human fertility, religion and esoteric literary research that is perfectly appealing if that ...

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  3. Oct 2, 2018 · xxiv, 176 pages ; 20 cm. 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.

  4. The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and ...

  5. David Lodge's The British Museum is Falling Down was published in 1965 and is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements.

  6. Sep 5, 1989 · The British Museum is Falling Down: timidly parodical, quirky British humor mimicking Modern literary styles while betraying scrimpy style of its own. Faintly quaint, or quaintly faint. A cross-pollination of problems attendant upon questions of human fertility, religion and esoteric literary research that is perfectly appealing if that ...

    • David Lodge
  7. Jul 31, 2012 · The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless,...