# The British Museum Is Falling Down

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- Authors: [David Lodge](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9955-422-6
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2011-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.