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The nightwatchman's occurrence book : and other comic inventions / V.S. Naipaul.
Van Pelt Library PR9272.9.N32 A6 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 546 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage International edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage International, 2002.
- Summary:
- The three stories in this book, "The Suffrage of Elvira, A Flag on the Island" and "Mr. Stone and the Knight's Companion, " take readers from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London, all in Naipaul's bizarre international style.
- Contents:
- The suffrage of Elvira
- Mr Stone and the knights companion
- A flag on the island.
- Notes:
- Originally published as 3 separate works in 1958, 1963 and 1967.
- Contains:
- Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018. Suffrage of Elvira.
- Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018. Mr Stone and the knights companion.
- Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018. Flag on the island.
- ISBN:
- 0375708332
- OCLC:
- 50127839
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