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A House for Mr. Biswas

  • V. S. Naipaul

3.33

3 ratings

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.

Genres

  • 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
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About the author

  • V. S. Naipaul

    1932 - 2018

    3.61

    38 ratings · 318 works

Editions

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    1st Alfred A. Knopf ed.

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    Russell ed. --. --

    A. Deutsch, 1964.

    1964

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    Penguin (Non-Classics)

    August 26, 1976

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    3rd ed. with foreward.

    A. Deutsch

    1984

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1st Alfred A. Knopf ed.

Knopf, Distributed by Random House

1983

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    1st Vintage Books ed.

    Vintage Books, Vintage

    1984

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    New Ed edition

    Picador

    January 3, 2003

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    1st Vintage International ed.

    Vintage International

    2001

  • Edition cover

    New Ed edition

    Penguin (Non-Classics)

    August 26, 1976

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    Penguin Books

    1992

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    Knopf, Distributed by Random House

    1995

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    Penguin Books

    1969

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    Fontana

    1963

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    McGraw-Hill

    1961

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    Russell ed.

    Deutsch

    1964

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    Knopf, Distributed by Random House

    1995

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  • Edition cover

    Russell edition.

    A. Deutsch

    1969

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    Andre Deutsch

    1961

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    Penguin

    1969

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    A. Deutsch

    1973

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    David Campbell Publishers

    1995