The Classical Temper A Study of James Joyce's Ulysses

London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. The book is tightly bound, orange boards gilt text, top edge greyed. The dust jacket is complete with minor shelf wear, spine sunned/faded. Internally the book is clean and free of foxing. There may be the occasional pencil marks in the margin as Lodge habitually "reviewed" books as he read them. ; From the library of David Lodge. Lodge is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975) , Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The second two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960). Lodge has also written television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. His edition of Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1972) includes essays on 20th-century writers such as T. S. Eliot. In 1992, he published The Art of Fiction, a collection of essays on literary techniques with illustrative examples from great authors, such as Point of View (Henry James) , The Stream of Consciousness (Virginia Woolf) and Interior Monologue (James Joyce). ; 346 pages .