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1. A House for Mr. Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
"A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion". (Anthony Burgess). "A House for Mr Biswas" is V. S. Naipaul's ... More
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2. An Area of Darkness
by V. S. Naipaul
This text is a semi-autobiographical account of a year V.S. Naipaul spent in India. From his arrival in prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and ... More
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3. Guerrillas
by V S Naipaul
Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - ... More
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4. A Turn in the South
by V S Naipaul
A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with ... More
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5. The Mimic Men
by V. S. Naipaul
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR 'A Tolstoyan spirit ...The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist' John Updike, New ...
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6. India: A Wounded Civilization
by V. S. Naipaul
THE SECOND BOOK IN V.S. NAIPAUL'S ACCLAIMED INDIAN TRILOGY In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a ... More
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7. A Bend in the River
by V S Naipaul
'Brilliant and terrifying' Observer Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders ... More
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8. The Mystic Masseur
by V S Naipaul
The Mystic Masseur, V. S. Naipaul's first published novel, is the story of the rise and rise of Ganesh, from failed primary school teacher and ... More
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9. In a Free State
by V S Naipaul
"In a Free State" deals in displacement. It tells first of an Indian servant in Washington, then of an Asian West Indian in London who is in jail for ... More
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10. Half a Life
by V. S. Naipaul
In "Half a Life" we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father ... More
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11. Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
by V S Naipaul
List of all editionsThis is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very ... More
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12. The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
by V S Naipaul
List of all editionsLike all of V. S. Naipaul's 'travel' books, "The Masque of Africa" encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief ... More
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13. Reading and Writing: A Personal Account
by V S Naipaul
List of all editions"I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition." But for the young V. S. Naipaul, ... More
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14. Miguel Street
by V. S. Naipaul
List of all editionsMiguel Street, V. S. Naipaul's first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War Two and is ... More
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15. The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions
by V. S. Naipaul
List of all editionsWITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR V.S. Naipaul's legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these ... More
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16. Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
by V. S. Naipaul
List of all editions"Among the Believers" is V.S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the ... More
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17. The Enigma of Arrival
by V S Naipaul
List of all editionsA moving and beautiful novel of the transformation of rural England. Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by surrealist painter Giorgio ... More
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18. Magic Seeds
by V S Naipaul
List of all editionsWillie Chandran is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, after a peripatetic life, he ... More
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19. The Writer and the World: Essays
by V. S. Naipaul
List of all editionsDuring forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his ... More
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20. Magic Seeds
by V S Naipaul
List of all editionsWillie Chandran is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, after a peripatetic life, he ... More
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21. Between Father and Son: Family Letters
by V S Naipaul
List of all editionsA collection of letters between noted emigre writer V.S. Naipaul, living in England, and his father living in Trinidad are presented, illuminating ... More
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22. The Loss of El Dorado
by V S Naipaul
List of all editionsWith clarity and novelistic drama, Naipaul presents an unparalleled feat of historical writing in this early history of Trinidad. 2 maps.
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23. A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling: An Essay in Five Parts
by V S Naipaul
List of all editionsPart meditation, part remembrance, and as elegant as it is revelatory, "A Writer's People" allows for privileged insight--full of incident, humor, ... More
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24. Literary Occasions: Essays
by V. S. Naipaul
List of all editionsIn these eleven extended pieces V. S. Naipaul charts more than half a century of personal enquiry into the mysteries of the written word and of ... More
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25. The Middle Passage
by V S Naipaul
List of all editionsV.S. Naipaul undertook this Caribbean journey at the invitation, in 1960, of Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, the ... More







