An edition of A House for Mr. Biswas (1961)

A house for Mr. Biswas

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A house for Mr. Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
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An edition of A House for Mr. Biswas (1961)

A house for Mr. Biswas

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  • ★★★ 3.33 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 79 Want to read
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  • 4 Have read

Naipaul’s breakthrough novel is a marvellous comic tale of a Trinidadian of Indian descent striving to improve his lot. Continually making big plans for himself he constantly finds himself thwarted by his wife’s family and by his own ineptitude and over-reaching ambition.

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David Campbell Publishers
Language
English
Pages
564

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Subjects
Home ownership, Journalists, Family, East Indians, Middle aged men, Homeowners, Fiction, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Middle-aged men, Außenseiter, Inder, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Caribbean area, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, humorous, general
Places
Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)
Times
20th century

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A house for Mr. Biswas
2001, Vintage International
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A house for Mr. Biswas
1995, David Campbell Publishers
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A house for Mr. Biswas
1992, Penguin Books
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A house for Mr. Biswas
1984, Vintage Books, Vintage
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
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A house for Mr. Biswas
1983, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st Alfred A. Knopf ed.
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A House for Mr. Biswas
August 26, 1976, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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A house for Mr. Biswas
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London
Series
Everyman's library -- 213

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Dewey Decimal Class
813
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Pagination
564p. ;
Number of pages
564

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OL19646706M
ISBN 10
1857152131
OCLC/WorldCat
221800444
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10057
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