A House For Mr Biswas: V.S. Naipaul (Everyman's Library CLASSICS) - Hardcover

Naipaul, V S

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9781857152135: A House For Mr Biswas: V.S. Naipaul (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

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ISBN 10: 1857152131 ISBN 13: 9781857152135

Publisher: Everyman, 1995

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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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‘A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power’ -- Newsweek

‘A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion’ -- Anthony Burgess

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A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the 20th century's finest novels.

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