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The History Man is a campus novel by Malcolm Bradbury published in 1975. His best-known novel, it is a satire of academic life in the "glass and steel" universities, the ones established in the 1960s which followed the "redbricks". In 1981 the book was made into a successful BBC television serial.
The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for an hour every seven years. The kids are all nine years old. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on ...
Bradbury was a productive academic writer as well as a successful teacher; an expert on the modern novel, he published books on Evelyn Waugh, Saul Bellow and E. M. Forster, as well as editions of such modern classics as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and a number of surveys and handbooks of modern fiction, both British and American.
In the 43rd year, Actors' Theatre of Columbus launches their new outdoor summer season, "Telling Tales."
The Heat of the Day: 1949 Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man: 1975 John Braine: Room at the Top: 1957 Joyce Cary: The Horse's Mouth: 1944 Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye: 1953 Ivy Compton-Burnett: The Mighty and Their Fall: 1961 William Cooper: Scenes from Provincial Life: 1950 Robertson Davies: The Rebel Angels: 1982 Len Deighton: Bomber ...
The History Man is a British television drama series which aired in four parts on BBC2 in 1981. It is based on Malcolm Bradbury's 1975 novel of the same title. [1] Cast