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A House for Mr Biswas (Twentieth-Century Classics) by V.S. Naipaul is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A House for Mr Biswas (Twentieth-Century Classics) about?
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.
Who reads A House for Mr Biswas (Twentieth-Century Classics)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- V.S. Naipaul
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140186048
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (76 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- A House for Mr. Biswas : A Novel (2010)
- A house for Mr. Biswas [eBook - NC Digital Library] : A Novel (2001)
- منزل السيد بيسواس [Arabic] (2001)
- A House for Mr. Biswas (1976)
- House for Mister Biswas (2001)
- A house for Mr. Biswas [eBook - NC Digital Library] : A Novel (1960)
- A House for Mr. Biswas : A Novel (1961)
- A house for Mr. Biswas [eBook - NC Digital Library] : A Novel (2010)
- A House For Mr. Biswas (1983)
- A House For Mr. Biswas (1984)
- A House Form Rbiwas (2010)
- A house for Mr. Biswas [eBook - NC Digital Library] : A Novel (2011)
- A House for Mr. Biswas : A Novel (2001)
- A House for Mister Biswas (2001)
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