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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
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 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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Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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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
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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv).

Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.8 33.0 43272.

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New York
Series
Everyman's library -- 213
Genre
Fiction
Other Titles
House for Mister Biswas

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR9272.9.N32 H6 1995

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Pagination
xxxi, 564 p. ;
Number of pages
564

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OL23276023M
ISBN 10
0679444580
LCCN
96121747
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10057
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