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A house for Mr. Biswas / V.S. Naipaul ; with an introduction by Karl Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Everyman's library ; 213New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1995Description: xxxi, 564 p. ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781857152135 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • House for Mister Biswas
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823 NAI 23 023134
LOC classification:
  • PR9272.9.N32 H6 1995
Online resources: Summary: In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his grander in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally finding a house of his own, he triumphs over the smaller minds who would repress him.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv).

In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his grander in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally finding a house of his own, he triumphs over the smaller minds who would repress him.

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