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An edition of ↪ /works/OL3501731W (1980)

A Confederacy of Dunces

39th printing

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.70 ·
  • 64 Ratings
  • 218 Want to read
  • 12 Currently reading
  • 91 Have read

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures."
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Grove Press
Language
English
Pages
394

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Subjects
mothers, travel, housing, character, sons, groups, loneliness, Young men, Mothers and sons, Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, humorous, Mothers and sons, fiction, New orleans (la.), fiction, American drama (dramatic works by one author), Fiction, general, Fiction, humorous, general, Large type books, American literature, Madres e hijos, Novela, Hombres jóvenes
People
Ignatius J. Reilly, Myrna Minkoff, Irene Reilly, Santa Battaglia, Claude Robichaux, Angelo Mancuso, Lana Lee, George, Darlene, Burma Jones, Mr. Clyde, Gus Levy, Mrs. Levy, Miss Trixie, Mr. Gonzalez, Dorian Greene, Frieda Club, Dr. Talc, Miss Annie
Places
New Orleans (La.), New Orleans, Louisiana, French Quarter, Canal Street, Mississippi River, D.H. Holmes, Werlein's Music Store, Prytania Theater

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New York, USA

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1980

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.69
Library of Congress
PS3570.O54 C66 2002

Contributors

Foreword
Walker Percy

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
ix, 394 p. ;
Number of pages
394

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24203981M
Internet Archive
confederacyofdun00tool
ISBN 10
0802130208
ISBN 13
9780802130204
LCCN
87-408
OCLC/WorldCat
1014546355
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0802130208
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40364667

Work Description

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures."

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A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.
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