- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd (10 Oct 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0413568202
- ISBN-13: 978-0413568205
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,882,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Albert Woods is a brilliant little man. Born of lower-middle-class parents, gifted with a talent for science and boundless ambition. Albert achieves a fellowship in Oxford, a promising career and an excellent marriage. William Cooper's delightful and witty account of Albert's advancement - amorous and intellectual -towards the pinnacle of social fulfilment is a marvellously revealing portrait of the British system.
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For a book written in the 1950s and set in the 1930s & 40s, "The Struggles of Albert Woods" manages to be as relevant and topical today as it was when it was first published. Beautifully written and exquisitely observed, the book tells the tale of the little man battling through the obsurdity of life as a research scientist. While much of the book will have scientists themselves chuckling in knowing amusement, the struggles of Albert's life are recorded in such sufficient and down-right hillarious detail so as to appeal to even the most unscientific of us. A triumphant presentation to a group of lofty Oxford academics that provokes nothing but a correction of his figures, and the fumbled courtship of a local lady in a car that has one door permanently jammed shut while the other flies open at every corner, are just two such examples of the broad appeal of Cooper's work. With a quirky writing style that is as amusing and endearing as the narrative itself, this is a treasure of a tale that I am glad to have added to my list of all-time favourites.
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