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

A house for Mr. Biswas

1st Alfred A. Knopf ed.

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

A house for Mr. Biswas

1st Alfred A. Knopf ed.

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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
481

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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, Families

Places

Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)

Times

20th century

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Cover of: A house for Mr. Biswas
A house for Mr. Biswas
2001, Vintage International
in English - 1st Vintage International ed.
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Cover of: A house for Mr. Biswas
A house for Mr. Biswas
1992, Penguin Books
in English
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Cover of: A house for Mr. Biswas
A house for Mr. Biswas
1984, Vintage Books, Vintage
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
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Cover of: A house for Mr. Biswas
A house for Mr. Biswas
1983, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st Alfred A. Knopf ed.
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Cover of: A House for Mr. Biswas
A House for Mr. Biswas
August 26, 1976, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
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A house for Mr. Biswas
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Edition Notes

Reprint. Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [c1961] With new introd.

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.
Other Titles
House for Mister Biswas.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR9272.9.N32 H6 1983, PR9272.9.N32H6 1983

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 481 p. ;
Number of pages
481

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3186993M
Internet Archive
houseformrbiswas00naip
ISBN 10
039453400X
LCCN
83048110
OCLC/WorldCat
466395873, 9646564
Library Thing
10057
Goodreads
4226606

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