Under Milk Wood A Play for Voices

London: J M Dent & Son. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. The book is tightly bound; brown boards, stained, gilt text - faded. Top edge greyed. Dust jacket worn to the extremities, closed tear on back; unclipped showing 8s 6d. Light browning on the endpapers: paper browning, text block generally clean and free of markings and foxing. ; 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) , beginning with Beginning and ending with Ending. Lodge refers to Under Milk Wood in his autobiography as a book that he read many times as well as listening to on the radio in 1954. ; 101 pages .