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The history man : a novel

Malcolm Bradbury's classic skewering of 1970s academia, hailed by the New York Times as "an encyclopedia of radical chic as well as a genuinely comic novel." Among the painfully hip students and teachers at the liberal University of Watermouth, Howard Kirk appears to be the most stylish of them all. With his carefully manicured mustache and easygoing radicalism, Kirk prides himself on being among the most highly evolved teachers on his redbrick campus. But beneath Kirk's scholarly bohemianism and studied cool is a ruthless, self-serving Machiavellian streak. A sociology lecturer who outwardly espouses freethinking nonconformity, Kirk is himself vain and bigoted, dismissing female students and colleagues while releasing vitriol against those who contradict him, particularly his clever, wayward wife, Barbara, the long-suffering mother of his two children. A funny and incisive satire of academia and ideological hypocrisy, The History Man is one of Malcolm Bradbury's most acclaimed novels and remains just as sharp and witty today as when it was first published.

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  • "Konusu İngiltere'de geçen bir roman."
  • "Malcolm Bradbury's classic skewering of 1970s academia, hailed by the New York Times as "an encyclopedia of radical chic as well as a genuinely comic novel." Among the painfully hip students and teachers at the liberal University of Watermouth, Howard Kirk appears to be the most stylish of them all. With his carefully manicured mustache and easygoing radicalism, Kirk prides himself on being among the most highly evolved teachers on his redbrick campus. But beneath Kirk's scholarly bohemianism and studied cool is a ruthless, self-serving Machiavellian streak. A sociology lecturer who outwardly espouses freethinking nonconformity, Kirk is himself vain and bigoted, dismissing female students and colleagues while releasing vitriol against those who contradict him, particularly his clever, wayward wife, Barbara, the long-suffering mother of his two children. A funny and incisive satire of academia and ideological hypocrisy, The History Man is one of Malcolm Bradbury's most acclaimed novels and remains just as sharp and witty today as when it was first published."@en
  • "Een hyperradicale socioloog aan een "Nieuwe universiteit" probeert de geschiedenis naar zijn hand te zetten waarbij hij op niets ontziende wijze zijn collega's manipuleert."
  • "Free love and free living are the rules the Kirks live by, but their lives become challenged by their beliefs."@en
  • "De History-man. - Een hyperradicale socioloog aan een 'Nieuwe universiteit' probeert de geschiedenis naar zijn hand te zetten waarbij hij op niets ontziende wijze zijn collega's manipuleert."
  • "Set in Watermouth University, this is the story of Barbara and Howard Kirk, their very modern marriage and their equally radical politics. It captures the complexities of academic life, from tedious meetings and work-place machinations, to corruption and disruption at the highest levels."
  • "Humorous and biting satire of British university life in the 1960s and 1970s, where safely positioned bourgeois radicals reign. Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university. Timid Vice-Chancellors pale before his threats of disruption. Reactionary colleagues are crushed beneath his merciless Marxist logic. Woman are drawn by his promiscuity. A self-appointed revolutionary hero, Howard always comes out on top."

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  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Nowele angielskie"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Omul istoriei"
  • "A történelem bizalmasa : [regény]"@hu
  • "Tarih Adam"
  • "Ajan Mies"
  • "Instalado en la cresta de la ola"@es
  • "Instalado en la cresta de la ola"
  • "Den radikale askeladden"
  • "A történelem bizalmasa"
  • "The history man : [a novel]"
  • "El Dueño de la historia"
  • "Der Geschichtsmensch : roman"
  • "Ajan mies"@fi
  • "Der Geschichtsmensch : Roman"
  • "Историческая личность : [роман]"
  • "Un om al istoriei"
  • "Homo historicus"
  • "Homo historicus"@pl
  • "De geschiedenis-man"
  • "The history man : a novel"
  • "The history man : a novel"@en
  • "The History man"
  • "De geschiedenisman"
  • "Istoricheskai︠a︡ lichnostʹ : [roman]"
  • "The History man : a novel"
  • "The History Man"
  • "The History Man"@en
  • "Tarih adam : roman"
  • "El dueño de la historia"@es
  • "El dueño de la historia"
  • "The history man : [the classic satire of university life]"
  • "Der Geschichtsmensch Roman"
  • "The history man the classic satire of university life"
  • "The history man"
  • "The history man"@en
  • "As liberdades amorosas de um casal"
  • "The history man : A novel"
  • "The history of man"
  • "Istoricheskaia︡ lichnostʹ : roman"

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