Bibliograph

A way in the world, a novel, V.S. Naipaul

Type

Label

A way in the world, a novel, V.S. Naipaul

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A way in the world

Oclc number

29519580

Responsibility statement

V.S. Naipaul

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A collection of narratives on the subject of history and the people who make it. One follows the last expedition of Sir Walter Raleigh before he was sent to the Tower, another chronicles Francisco de Miranda's disastrous invasion of South America, a third is about a Panamanian communist in the 1930s

Table Of Contents

Prelude: an inheritance -- History: a smell of fish glue -- New clothes: an unwritten story -- Passenger: a figure from the thirties -- On the run -- A parcel of papers, a roll of tobacco, a tortoise: an unwritten story -- A new man -- In the gulf of desolation: an unwritten story -- Home again

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