"trajectory of the Kirks' life together ends when Barbara attempts suicide during a party. A four-part adaptation of ""The History Man"" was broadcast by the BBC in 1981. It starred Antony Sher as Howard Kirk, and Geraldine James as his wife Barbara; Isla Blair played Flora Beniform. Exteriors for the series were shot at the University of Lancaster and in Bristol. At the end, there is a caption stating that in the 1979 general election Howard Kirk voted Conservative. The History Man The History Man (1975) is a campus novel by the British author Malcolm Bradbury, set in the fictional"
"Although often compared with his contemporary David Lodge, a friend who has also written campus novels, Bradbury's books are consistently darker in mood and less playful both in style and language. In 1986 he wrote a short humorous book titled ""Why Come to Slaka?"", a parody of travel books, dealing with Slaka, the fictional Eastern European country that is the setting for his novel ""Rates of Exchange"", a 1983 novel that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Bradbury also wrote extensively for television, including scripting series such as ""Anything More Would Be Greedy"", ""The Gravy Train"", the sequel ""The Gravy"
"irrelevance"", expelled from the university. Whereas Howard selects his many sexual partners from among the people who work at the university (students as well as faculty members) on Saturday mornings, Barbara Kirk regularly goes on ""shopping trips"" to London to visit the same young man. What is more, the Kirks consider the parties they throw in their house a success if at least some of their guests have sex in the many rooms they provide for that. At one point in the novel, Howard's promiscuity gets him into trouble when he is told that he might be sacked for ""gross"
"health food and astrology, Howard grows a beard and they both start having ""small affairs"". When Barbara gets pregnant, rather than cancelling his class, Howard takes his students to the clinic to watch his wife giving birth. Finally, in 1967, he is appointed lecturer at Watermouth and right from the start he is intent on radicalising that bourgeois town, especially the newly founded university, an institution that he describes as 'a place I can work against'. The novel chronicles a term in the lives of Howard and Barbara Kirk. Howard's zero tolerance concerning non-Marxist, especially conservative, thinking makes him persecute"
"Malcolm Bradbury Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, (7 September 1932 – 27 November 2000) was an English author and academic. Bradbury was born in Sheffield, the son of a railwayman. His family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 with his brother and mother. The family later moved to Nottingham and in 1943 Bradbury attended West Bridgford Grammar School, where he remained until 1950. He read English at University College, Leicester and gained a first-class degree in English in 1953. He continued his studies at Queen Mary College, University of London, where he gained his MA in"
"Hampton). Bradbury derided the philistinism of television executives who wanted to capture the market of ""Brideshead Revisited"" and ""The Jewel in the Crown"" at impossibly low cost. He also explored the low esteem accorded writers in the hierarchy of television production. Malcolm Bradbury Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, (7 September 1932 – 27 November 2000) was an English author and academic. Bradbury was born in Sheffield, the son of a railwayman. His family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 with his brother and mother. The family later moved to Nottingham and in 1943 Bradbury attended West"
"Robert Morace Robert Morace (born September 22, 1947 in New York City, New York) is an American writer. He has written several guide books on Scottish writers and has been featured in Scotland, giving talks on the writers he has featured in his books. Dr Robert Morace Professor of English, B.A., M.S., SUNY College at Cortland; Ph.D., University of South Carolina. Dr. Morace lectures in American Literature, Contemporary Fiction, and Film at Daemen College, Amherst, New York. He is the author of the books The Dialogic Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge (1989) and John Gardner: An Annotated Secondary"
"Nicola Bradbury Nicola Anne Lulham Bradbury D. Phil. (born 1951) is an English literary critic, lecturer, editor, and author, specializing in the 19th century novel. Bradbury was born in Weston-super-Mare, the daughter of Robin J. Bradbury and Joan Lulham, who had married in 1949. She was the middle child of a family of three, with an older brother, Peter, and a younger brother, Christopher. She was educated at the University of Oxford and then at McGill, with a Commonwealth Scholarship awarded in 1974. Bradbury later reported that in Canada she ""first encountered ‘theory’ and that stood me in good stead"
"bare necessities of life. A few years after their graduation, in the summer of 1963, the ""old Kirks"", already a married couple living in a small bedsit, metamorphose into the ""new Kirks"" when one day, while Howard is at the university where he has a job as a lecturer, Barbara has spontaneous casual sex with an Egyptian student. This fling triggers a series of events. When he has got over the shock, Howard begins to associate with all kinds of radical people. The Kirks make lots of new friends. They smoke pot at parties, Barbara develops a new interest in"
"James and Charles Dickens. Nicola Bradbury Nicola Anne Lulham Bradbury D. Phil. (born 1951) is an English literary critic, lecturer, editor, and author, specializing in the 19th century novel. Bradbury was born in Weston-super-Mare, the daughter of Robin J. Bradbury and Joan Lulham, who had married in 1949. She was the middle child of a family of three, with an older brother, Peter, and a younger brother, Christopher. She was educated at the University of Oxford and then at McGill, with a Commonwealth Scholarship awarded in 1974. Bradbury later reported that in Canada she ""first encountered ‘theory’ and that stood"
"opera ""such confusions are essential."" Vedontakal Vrop Vedontakal Vrop (The Secret Unmasked) is an imaginary five-hour-long opera which features in two books by the English novelist Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), ""Rates of Exchange"" (1983) and ""Why Come to Slaka?"" (1986). Slaka is an imaginary East European COMECON country, described by Bradbury through the character of its leader, Comrade-General I. Vulcani, as ""a nation proud of its socialistik emulations."" Slaka, which, according to the writer Lidia Vianu ""reminds us of Bulgaria"" is the subject of Bradbury's books ""Rates of Exchange"" and ""Why Come to Slaka?"", the first of which is a novel"
"Vedontakal Vrop Vedontakal Vrop (The Secret Unmasked) is an imaginary five-hour-long opera which features in two books by the English novelist Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), ""Rates of Exchange"" (1983) and ""Why Come to Slaka?"" (1986). Slaka is an imaginary East European COMECON country, described by Bradbury through the character of its leader, Comrade-General I. Vulcani, as ""a nation proud of its socialistik emulations."" Slaka, which, according to the writer Lidia Vianu ""reminds us of Bulgaria"" is the subject of Bradbury's books ""Rates of Exchange"" and ""Why Come to Slaka?"", the first of which is a novel relating the misadventures of a"
"series of eccentric characters in the forgotten town. The books biography lists this as Bradbury's first novel since ""Something Wicked This Way Comes"", although the young adult novel ""The Halloween Tree"" was published later. It evokes both the milieu and style of other mystery writers Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Ross Macdonald, all of whom Bradbury names in the book's dedication, and James Crumley, after whom Bradbury named his detective. Yet the main character is undoubtedly Bradbury himself, portrayed in a period of his life just before his marriage and his success with ""The Martian Chronicles"". Two"
"different, which they then pit against each other to see whose is best. The programme was broadcast for 4 episodes. Bradbury has written a series of techno-thrillers for 8 to 13 year olds called ""Dot Robot"". The first in the trilogy, ""Dot Robot"", tells the story of a twelve-year-old mathematics and computer gaming genius, recruited into a top-secret robot defence-force. He has also been touring schools in the UK since publication of the series with an interactive robot experience called ""The Dot Robot Roadshow"". His second book ""Atomic Swarm"", was published by Puffin on 1 February 2010 and the last"
"Bradbury, and similarities have been noted by other authors as well. King also wrote that the story had ""no redeeming social merit whatever."" In ""The Complete Stephen King Universe"", it's described as an ""effective chiller."" Miss Emily Sidley is a first grade teacher. On one particular day, while she's teaching spelling, Sidley gets the disconcerting feeling that one of her students is staring at her. She turns around and notices that Robert, the quietest student, has his gaze fixed on her. During the following week, Miss Sidley eventually punishes Robert for her suspicions. Robert taunts her by asking her if"
"Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction. Widely known for his dystopian novel ""Fahrenheit 451"" (1953), and his science-fiction and horror-story collections, ""The Martian Chronicles"" (1950), ""The Illustrated Man"" (1951), and ""I Sing the Body Electric"" (1969), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers. While most of his best known work is in speculative fiction, he also wrote in other genres, such as the coming-of-age novel ""Dandelion Wine"" (1957) and"
"the exploitation of humans by other humans. Nevertheless practices have crept into their lives, which do not live up to such high standards: Howard writes books, while Barbara—stranded with much of the housework and two little children—would like to but never gets round to doing it. Any female student who comes to live with—rather than work for—them is made to babysit and perform domestic chores. When Howard and Barbara meet in their third year at the University of Leeds, Howard is still a virgin. They are both religious and working-class, and during their student years cannot afford more than the"
"based on Bradbury's short story ""I Sing the Body Electric"". The 1983 horror film ""Something Wicked This Way Comes"", starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce, is based on the Bradbury novel of the same name. In 1984, Michael McDonough of Brigham Young University produced ""Bradbury 13"", a series of 13 audio adaptations of famous stories from Bradbury, in conjunction with National Public Radio. The full-cast dramatizations featured adaptations of ""The Ravine"", ""Night Call, Collect"", ""The Veldt"", ""There Was an Old Woman"", ""Kaleidoscope"", ""Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"", ""The Screaming Woman"", ""A Sound of Thunder"", ""The Man"", ""The Wind"", ""The Fox"
"Small World: An Academic Romance Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) is a campus novel by the British writer David Lodge. It is the second book of Lodge's ""Campus Trilogy"", after ""Changing Places"" (1975) and before ""Nice Work"" (1988). ""Small World"" uses the main characters (Professors Philip Swallow and Morris Zapp and their wives) from ""Changing Places"" and adds many new ones. It follows them around the international circuit of academic literary conferences. It is highly, and self-reflexively, allusive to quests for the Holy Grail, especially to Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene"", as well as to studies such as ""Inescapable"
"university's extramural department between 1946 and 1950. Of longer lasting influence on Birmingham literature were David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury – the two leading late-20th century practitioners of the campus novel – who both joined the staff of the English Department in the early 1960s, collaborating on the 1963 satirical revue ""Between these Four Walls"" for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and becoming lifelong friends. Bradbury wrote his second novel ""Stepping Westward"" in the city but moved to the University of East Anglia in 1965, while Lodge remained in Birmingham, retiring in 1987 to concentrate on writing. Many of Lodge's novels"
"the fictionalized memoir ""Green Shadows, White Whale"" (1992). Recipient of numerous awards, including a 2007 Pulitzer Citation, Bradbury also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including ""Moby Dick"" and ""It Came from Outer Space"". Many of his works were adapted to comic book, television, and film formats. Upon his death in 2012, ""The New York Times"" called Bradbury ""the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream"". Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois, to Esther (née Moberg) Bradbury (1888–1966), a Swedish immigrant, and Leonard Spaulding Bradbury (1890–1957), a power and"
"objective values, which education should teach children to recognise. The novel's title is taken from a poem written by David Lyndsay in 1555, """", also known as ""The Monarche"". The couplet in question, """", refers to the Tower of Babel. The book, written during the final period of World War II, takes places at an undetermined year ""after the end of the war"". Mark Studdock is a young academic who has just become a Senior Fellow in sociology at Bracton College in the University of Edgestow. The fellows of Bracton are debating the sale of a portion of college land"
"by the composer Z. Leblat. Slaka was further explored in television, in two mini-series scripted by Bradbury, ""The Gravy Train"", and a sequel ""The Gravy Train Goes East"". Critics have proposed Slaka to be a satire of Romania during the 1980s, or possibly Bulgaria. Slaka (fiction) Slaka is the imaginary East European COMECON country featured in two books of the English novelist Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), ""Rates of Exchange"" (1983) and ""Why Come to Slaka?"" (1986). It is described by its leader Comrade-General I. Vulcani as ""a nation proud of its socialistik emulations."" The first novel relates the misadventures of a"
"students at Hudson University include Dick Grayson/Robin (who only attended for one semester), Professor Martin Stein, Crystal Frost, Louise Lincoln, and Duela Dent. The father of Amy Winston was a professor of English at Hudson. In ""New Adventures of Superboy"" #51 (1984), a teenaged Clark Kent is shown pondering whether to accept an offer to attend Hudson University, but eventually chooses Metropolis University in Metropolis instead. Hudson University Hudson University is a fictional university appearing in American comic books published by the DC Comics. The name is also used as a fictional university depicted in ""Law & Order"" and its"
"got on with it."" They had two children in the years 1960 to 1963, a son and a daughter; a second son, Christopher, was born in 1966 with Down Syndrome. From 1959 to 1960, Lodge worked in London as an English teacher for the British Council. In 1960, he obtained a job as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where he was preparing his PhD thesis on the Oxford Movement. At Birmingham, Lodge met the novelist Malcolm Bradbury, who was to become his ""closest writer friend""; the example of Bradbury's comic writing was, according to Lodge, a major influence"
"Miskatonic University Miskatonic University is a fictional university located in Arkham, a fictional town in Essex County, Massachusetts. It is named after the Miskatonic River (also fictional). After first appearing in H. P. Lovecraft's 1922 story ""Herbert West–Reanimator"", the school appeared in numerous Cthulhu Mythos stories by Lovecraft and other writers. The story ""The Dunwich Horror"" implies that Miskatonic University is a highly prestigious university, on par with Harvard University, and that Harvard and Miskatonic are the two most popular schools for the children of the Massachusetts “Old Gentry”. The university also appears in role-playing games and board games based"
"(a principal character) in the ""hothouse atmosphere of Wesleyan University..."" Two of Robert Ludlum's novels are set partially at Wesleyan, ""The Matlock Paper"" much of the action takes place in and around the campus of a thinly disguised Wesleyan, and also ""The Chancellor Manuscript"" where Ludlum refers to Wesleyan as 'a wealthy but minor university'. The 1963 comedic novel, ""Night and Silence Who is Here?"", by novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson, is thought by many literary critics to be patterned humorously after Wesleyan's Institute for Advanced Studies (now the Center for the Humanities); the main characters comprise and parallel the cast"
"1955. Between 1955 and 1958 Bradbury moved between teaching posts with the University of Manchester and Indiana University in the United States. He returned to England in 1958 for a major heart operation; such was his heart condition that he was not expected to live beyond middle age. In 1959, while in hospital, he completed his first novel, ""Eating People is Wrong"". Bradbury married Elizabeth Salt and they had two sons. He took up his first teaching post as an adult-education tutor at the University of Hull. With his study on Evelyn Waugh in 1962 he began his career of"
"Slaka (fiction) Slaka is the imaginary East European COMECON country featured in two books of the English novelist Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), ""Rates of Exchange"" (1983) and ""Why Come to Slaka?"" (1986). It is described by its leader Comrade-General I. Vulcani as ""a nation proud of its socialistik emulations."" The first novel relates the misadventures of a visiting British academic, the second is a pastiche guide book to the country. Slaka is also the name of the country's capital; another of the country's major towns is Glit. The country's language is known as Slakan. The country's national opera is ""Vedontakal Vrop"","
"form from other sources. The Plastic Age The Plastic Age (1924) is a novel by Percy Marks that tells the story of Hugh Carver, a student at a fictional men's college called Sanford. With contents that covered or implied hazing, smoking, drinking, partying, and ""petting,"" the book sold well enough to be the second best-selling novel of 1924. The book was, however, banned in Boston. The following year, it was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Clara Bow. Marks was an English instructor at Brown University at the time of publication. Previously he taught at Dartmouth College"
"The Halloween Tree The Halloween Tree is a 1972 fantasy novel by American author Ray Bradbury, which traces the history of Samhain and Halloween. A group of eight boys set out to go trick-or-treating on Halloween, only to discover that a ninth friend, Pipkin, has been whisked away on a journey that could determine whether he lives or dies. Through the help of a mysterious character named Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud, they pursue their friend across time and space through Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Greek, and Ancient Roman cultures, Celtic Druidism, the Notre Dame Cathedral in Medieval Paris, and The Day of"
"Birmingham. The novels share characters; notably, Rummidge's English literature lecturer, Philip Swallow and his American counterpart, Professor Morris Zapp, who aspires to be ""the highest paid teacher of Humanities in the world"". Swallow and Zapp first cross paths in ""Changing Places"", where they swap jobs for an exchange scheme (and later, swap wives). Lodge has said that the plot of the novel ""was a narrative transformation of the thematic material and the socio-cultural similarities and differences I had perceived between Birmingham and Berkeley"" (during his time as visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley). Other fictional universities appear in"
"former tutor, Lord Marchpayne, a once-close friend with whom he has lost touch, and fellow Scot Ranald McKechnie, now a lecturer at the college. McKechnie's wife, Janet, is Duncan's first love. The second novel, ""Young Patullo"", tells the story of their former relationships and Patullo's undergraduate career. Fantasy writer and Oxford don J. R. R. Tolkien appears as the elderly ""Professor Timbermill"" in this novel. In ""The Madonna of the Astrolabe"" Patullo copes with his ex-wife, the undergraduates' production of ""Tamburlaine"", and the problems of raising enough money for the urgently needed restoration of the crumbling Great Tower. The discovery"