Novels
- The Itinerant Lodger (1965)
- Ostrich Country (1968)
- A Piece of the Sky is Missing (1969)
- The Death of Reginald Perrin (1975, later reissued as The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin)
- The Return of Reginald Perrin (1977)
- The Better World of Reginald Perrin (1978)
- Second From Last in the Sack Race (1983)
- A Bit of a Do (1986)
- Pratt of the Argus (1988)
- Fair Do's (1990)
- The Cucumber Man (1994)
- The Legacy of Reginald Perrin (1996)
- Going Gently (2000)
- Sex and Other Changes (2004)
- Pratt à Manger (2006)
- Cupid's Dart (2006)
- Obstacles to Young Love (2010)
- It Had to be You
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“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
“But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens—of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.”
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