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The British Museum Is Falling Down

The British Museum Is Falling Down

The British Museum is Falling Down 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 in the reading room of the British Museum, is distracted time and again from his work and who gets into all kinds of trouble instead.


“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.”

The British Museum Is Falling Down ([1965] 1983), ch. 4, p. 56. ISBN 0140062149

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