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    In a Free State

    V. S. Naipaul

    V. S. Naipaul’s Booker Prize-winning novel set in an African state.

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    The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited

    V. S. Naipaul

    Originally published: London: A. Deutsch, 1962.

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    Miguel Street

    V. S. Naipaul

    The time is World War II, the setting a derelict street in Trinidad’s capital, Port of Spain. In this tender early novel, Naipaul renders the residents’ lives (and the legends…

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    A House for Mr Biswas

    V. S. Naipaul

    A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels.

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    A Turn in the South

    V. S. Naipaul

    Explores the complex life and culture of the South through interviews with well-known personalities and with everyday citizens, covering topics from religious fundamentalism to issues of race, class, and heritage.

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    The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History

    V. S. Naipaul

    With clarity and novelistic drama, Naipaul presents an unparalleled feat of historical writing in this early history of Trinidad. 2 maps.

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    India: A Wounded Civilization

    V. S. Naipaul

    A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age.

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    Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey

    V. S. Naipaul

    An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism.

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    An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India

    V. S. Naipaul

    A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing.

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    The Writer and the World: Essays

    V. S. Naipaul

    Concentrating mainly on India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, this wonderful collection of essays is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduction to this writer’s extraordinary world.

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    A House for Mr. Biswas: A Novel

    V. S. Naipaul

    Traditional Chinese edition of A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul. It is a story of Mr. Biswas’s struggle for independence, but more importantly, it is his fight…

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    A Way in the World: A Novel

    V. S. Naipaul

    In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, one of literature’s great travelers (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a…

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    A Turn in the South

    V. S. Naipaul

    A thoughtful and beautifully crafted epilogue to the history of slavery - essential reading for anyone interested in American history.

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    Half a Life

    V. S. Naipaul

    V. S. Naipaul’s meditative novel about a stranger in a strange land.

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    V. S. Naipaul’s Journeys: From Periphery to Center

    Sanjay Krishnan (Associate Professor, Boston Universty)

    Sanjay Krishnan rereads V. S. Naipaul’s work to offer new perspectives on his achievements, shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipaul’s…

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    London Calling: V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin

    Rob Nixon (Professor of English, Professor of English, Columbia University)

    Challenging the popular view that Naipaul is a literary mediator between First and Third World experience in the post-colonial era, this study argues that his work articulates a set of…

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    The Transcription of Identities: A Study of V. S. Naipaul’s Postcolonial Writings

    Min Zhou

    Based on a study of V S Naipaul’s postcolonial writings, this book explores the process of postcolonial subjects’ special route of identification. It enables you to see how in our…

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    India: An Area Of Darkness, A Wounded Civilization & A Million Mutinies Now

    V. S. Naipaul

    Part of the Picador Classic series with an introduction from Paul Theroux.

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    India: An Area Of Darkness, A Wounded Civilization & A Million Mutinies Now

    V. S. Naipaul

    India is the collection of three classic books by V. S. Naipaul, introduced by fellow traveller and writer Paul Theroux.

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    The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

    V. S. Naipaul

    An astonishingly prescient, beautifully written and deeply humane meditation on belief from the late Nobel Laureate, Sir V. S. Naipaul.

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    Reading and Writing: A Personal Account

    V. S. Naipaul

    In this essay of literary autobiography, Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his University days in Oxford and his struggles as a young, poor and inexperienced writer…

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    In a Free State

    V. S. Naipaul

    The central novel from V.S. Naipaul’s Booker Prize-winning narrative of displacement, published for the first time in a stand-alone edition.

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    An Area of Darkness

    V. S. Naipaul

    A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing.

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    A House for Mr Biswas

    V. S. Naipaul

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul’s best-loved novel. With an introduction by writer Teju Cole.

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    The Enigma of Arrival

    V. S. Naipaul

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature comes a multicultural tale of finding your place in the world.

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    Fiction and the Incompleteness of History: Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, and Ben Okri

    Zhu Ying

    Based on the author’s thesis (Doctoral–University of Hong Kong, 2005).

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    Satire & the Postcolonial Novel: V. S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie

    John Clement Ball

    Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fictions. This work offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western…

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    Satire & the Postcolonial Novel: V. S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie

    John Clement Ball,John Clement Ball

    First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    A House for Mr. Biswas: Introduction by Karl Miller

    V. S. Naipaul

    Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair.

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    A Bend in the River: Introduction by Patrick Marnham

    V. S. Naipaul

    A great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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    A Bend in the River

    V. S. Naipaul

    A great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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    Imaginary Homelands of Writers in Exile: Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, and V. S. Naipaul

    Cristina Emanuela Dascalu

    A fascinating study, and a major contribution to critical discourse on the literature of exile. - Professor John C. Green, Chair, Department of Theatre, Butler University A welcome addition to…

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    Summary of A House for Mr. Biswas: A Novel (Vintage International) by V. S. Naipaul: Conversation Starters

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    A House for Mr. Biswas: A Novel (Vintage International) by V. S. Naipaul: Conversation Starters First published in 1961, the novel A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul…

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    The Problematics of Writing Back to the Imperial Centre: Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe and V. S. Naipaul in Conversation

    Nabil Baazizi

    In the wake of decolonization, colonialist narratives have systematically been rewritten from indigenous perspectives. This phenomenon is referred to as the Empire writes back to the centre - a trend…

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    The English Novel of History and Society, 1940-80: Richard Hughes, Henry Green, Anthony Powell, Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis, V. S. Naipaul

    Patrick Swinden

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    The English Novel of History and Society, 1940-80: Richard Hughes, Henry Green, Anthony Powell, Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis, V. S. Naipaul

    Patrick Swinden

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