NAIPAUL, V.S.: House for Mr Biswas (A) (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

A House for Mr. Biswas ( 06 min., 43 sec. )

Prologue ( 08 min., 19 sec. )

The solicitor's clerk lived in every house he built. ( 07 min., 53 sec. )

Part 1. 1: Pastoral ( 10 min., 23 sec. )

The subsequent quarrel and threats cleared the air. ( 11 min., 08 sec. )

Dhari, the next-door neighbour... ( 09 min., 59 sec. )

Lakhan the carter said... ( 09 min., 14 sec. )

Bipti was bathed. Her hair, still wet... ( 08 min. )

Because no cooking could be done at their house... ( 09 min., 53 sec. )

2: Before the Tulsis ( 10 min., 53 sec. )

Mr. Biswas was taught other things. ( 10 min., 51 sec. )

For eight months, in a bare, spacious, unpainted... ( 10 min., 02 sec. )

Soanie stood in the doorway, blocking the light. ( 08 min., 57 sec. )

Ajodha had bought a motorbus... ( 10 min., 14 sec. )

Bhandat was spending more week-ends away... ( 08 min., 52 sec. )

On Monday morning he set about looking... ( 03 min., 44 sec. )

The men drivers sat on their carts... ( 08 min., 50 sec. )

They went on a tour of the small hut... ( 08 min. )

After a time he started to go again to Tara's. ( 08 min., 58 sec. )

3: The Tulsis ( 10 min., 36 sec. )

The note was in Mrs. Tulsi's hand. ( 09 min., 47 sec. )

He put the cup down when he heard someone... ( 08 min., 51 sec. )

'We never had a quarrel,' Mrs. Tulsi said. ( 10 min., 51 sec. )

He felt unchanged, unmarried. ( 07 min., 43 sec. )

'What?' Shama said in English. ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

Mr. Biswas thought of Govind as a fellow... ( 11 min., 58 sec. )

Before he could decide, C and Padma... ( 10 min., 10 sec. )

After he had spoken Pankaj Rai distributed... ( 10 min., 21 sec. )

'Just a moment,' Mr. Biswas said. 'Not so fast...' ( 10 min., 24 sec. )

In the Rose Room, then, after a faint... ( 08 min., 47 sec. )

In the long room Mr. Biswas gathered... ( 11 min., 56 sec. )

They heard the hall return to life. ( 09 min., 11 sec. )

4: The Chase ( 09 min., 57 sec. )

In his careless retreat the previous tenant... ( 11 min., 13 sec. )

Shama was determined to do things well. ( 10 min., 04 sec. )

The beating had ceased to be a simple... ( 10 min., 23 sec. )

Shama was a puzzle. Within the girl... ( 09 min., 29 sec. )

He asked, 'what is that, eh?' ( 11 min., 24 sec. )

Moti did not belong to the village. ( 08 min., 18 sec. )

Mungroo was the leader of the village... ( 09 min., 23 sec. )

'Slowly, slowly, brothers and sisters...' ( 08 min., 22 sec. )

In all, Mr. Biswas lived for six years at The Chase. ( 08 min., 18 sec. )

All this made Mr. Biswas uneasy... ( 10 min., 21 sec. )

Once, years before, he was conducting... ( 09 min., 06 sec. )

Mr. Biswas went in by the tall side gate. ( 08 min., 33 sec. )

Savi fumbled ineffectually again. ( 10 min., 52 sec. )

Mr. Biswas felt that talk like this belonged... ( 05 min., 32 sec. )

5: Green Veil ( 10 min., 55 sec. )

Seth took out a roll of dollar notes... ( 11 min., 23 sec. )

After breakfast - tea and biscuits... ( 11 min., 02 sec. )

Chinta got up, straightened out her long skirt... ( 10 min., 33 sec. )

Mr. Biswas closed his eyes, rocked on the noisy... ( 11 min., 45 sec. )

Each side patronised the other... ( 12 min., 07 sec. )

Anand followed Mr. Biswas outside... ( 10 min., 20 sec. )

Mr. Biswas walked away from Mr. Maclean... ( 11 min., 31 sec. )

Surreptitiously rubbing his paining finger... ( 11 min., 51 sec. )

Mr. Biswas said, 'You think they're going...?' ( 11 min., 24 sec. )

Every day Mr. Biswas went to the site... ( 11 min., 01 sec. )

As the sugarcane grew taller... ( 10 min., 04 sec. )

He saw no one. The barracks had gone to sleep. ( 08 min., 27 sec. )

One Saturday Seth said, while they were... ( 10 min., 13 sec. )

He was beginning to enjoy the argument. ( 11 min., 42 sec. )

There were many reasons why Mr. Biswas... ( 10 min., 43 sec. )

The early morning breeze dropped. ( 06 min., 54 sec. )

Anything could sound like talk... ( 06 min., 47 sec. )

6: A Departure ( 09 min., 05 sec. )

Almost as soon as the doctor had gone... ( 09 min., 41 sec. )

The thin, short-winded and repetitive cry... ( 08 min., 11 sec. )

Part 2. 1: Amazing Scenes ( 10 min., 39 sec. )

The organisation of the city... ( 11 min., 41 sec. )

He went up the central steps and found himself... ( 10 min., 46 sec. )

Mr. Biswas was given paint and a brush... ( 09 min., 07 sec. )

But within the walls of the office... ( 09 min., 06 sec. )

Hari, in his pundit's clothes... ( 11 min., 05 sec. )

The cover had to be taken off and licked... ( 10 min., 59 sec. )

At home one day Anand began singing... ( 11 min., 57 sec. )

It was not long after this that Mr. Biswas... ( 11 min., 11 sec. )

Shekhar was coming to spend a week-end... ( 10 min., 38 sec. )

The next day Mr. Biwas wrote an angry article... ( 07 min., 50 sec. )

In the week before Owad's departure... ( 08 min., 11 sec. )

2: The New Regime ( 08 min. )

Change followed change. At Pagotes Tara... ( 08 min., 24 sec. )

It was only to Shama that Mr. Biswas spoke... ( 07 min., 47 sec. )

He read political books. They gave him phrases... ( 11 min., 39 sec. )

For many days Anand didn't speak... ( 11 min., 27 sec. )

Towards the end of that year a letter came... ( 13 min., 08 sec. )

3: The Short Hills Adventure ( 08 min., 47 sec. )

Soon she received impressive assistance. ( 10 min., 05 sec. )

Then at the far end of the cricket ground... ( 09 min., 31 sec. )

The money was little but regular... ( 09 min., 16 sec. )

Theophile was a blacksmith whose trade... ( 11 min., 57 sec. )

So for the children Shorthills became a nightmare. ( 11 min., 06 sec. )

About a fortnight after Hari died news came... ( 08 min., 40 sec. )

Buds, stalks and leaves were collected... ( 09 min., 50 sec. )

The speed with which the house went up... ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

One of the smoke wisps shrank... ( 10 min., 04 sec. )

4: Among the Readers and Learners ( 13 min., 20 sec. )

It was now that he began to speak... ( 10 min., 01 sec. )

And other dangers. Once, climbing up a short... ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

It was not long after this that Mr. Biswas... ( 10 min., 11 sec. )

Mr. Biswas tried to avoid Bhandat's gaze... ( 09 min., 48 sec. )

When the children asked Mr. Biswas... ( 08 min., 25 sec. )

After the acquisition of the glass cabinet... ( 08 min., 41 sec. )

With the exhibition examination less than two... ( 09 min., 02 sec. )

'You go,' Mr. Biswas said. Anand's cheeks bulged... ( 08 min., 25 sec. )

It was as Anand feared. The exhibition candidates... ( 08 min., 08 sec. )

Mr. Biswas took back his pen. It dripped with ink. ( 08 min., 10 sec. )

Mr. Biswas found himself a little out of his depth... ( 11 min., 16 sec. )

But the wound was still there, too deep... ( 09 min., 38 sec. )

The school had taken the first four places... ( 11 min., 01 sec. )

5: The Void ( 09 min., 24 sec. )

How many letters of resignation... ( 08 min., 21 sec. )

On Saturday Shama began packing a hamper. ( 08 min., 18 sec. )

They stopped at Balandra... ( 12 min., 55 sec. )

The interviews completed... ( 09 min., 03 sec. )

They parked the car in the road... ( 08 min., 18 sec. )

Not long after Basdai reported that the tenants... ( 08 min., 51 sec. )

For every puja Mrs. Tulsi tried a different pundit... ( 09 min., 12 sec. )

And though he had nerved himself for the blow... ( 09 min., 09 sec. )

There was little need for her to worry. ( 08 min., 12 sec. )

6: The Revolution ( 04 min., 21 sec. )

The cavalcade left the house in sections. ( 12 min., 10 sec. )

For a full week the festival continued. ( 09 min., 37 sec. )

While they waited for the revolution... ( 10 min., 50 sec. )

The game dragged on. Anand played worse... ( 10 min., 40 sec. )

The light from the diningroom came through... ( 08 min., 26 sec. )

Shortly after he had been taken on the Sentinel... ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

When, racing into the house out of the rain... ( 08 min., 23 sec. )

Between eight hundred dollars... ( 09 min., 53 sec. )

7: The House ( 08 min., 09 sec. )

But at last they could leave the Tulsi house. ( 09 min., 23 sec. )

W.C. Tuttle played with the hairs in his nose... ( 08 min., 10 sec. )

Epilogue ( 12 minutes, 05 sec. )

Participant:

Dastor, Sam, Reader -- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad, Author

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781781980835

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Restricted for use by site license.