A Confederacy of DuncesWinner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "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" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times). |
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Page 1
... looked down upon the other people waiting under the clock at the D. H. Holmes department store , studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste in dress . Sev- eral of the outfits , Ignatius noticed , were new enough and expensive ...
... looked down upon the other people waiting under the clock at the D. H. Holmes department store , studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste in dress . Sev- eral of the outfits , Ignatius noticed , were new enough and expensive ...
Page 7
... , " Ignatius said as they pushed through the dispersing crowd and started walking rapidly down Canal Street . He looked back and saw the old man and the bantam policeman grappling beneath the department store clock . " Will you please. • 7.
... , " Ignatius said as they pushed through the dispersing crowd and started walking rapidly down Canal Street . He looked back and saw the old man and the bantam policeman grappling beneath the department store clock . " Will you please. • 7.
Page 8
... looked at her son's reddening face and realized that he would very happily collapse at her feet just to prove his point . He had done it before . The last time that she had forced him to accompany her to mass on Sunday he had collapsed ...
... looked at her son's reddening face and realized that he would very happily collapse at her feet just to prove his point . He had done it before . The last time that she had forced him to accompany her to mass on Sunday he had collapsed ...
Page 9
... looked quite pained . " We might have stopped somewhere else . I suspect that the police will raid this place mo- mentarily anyway . " He snorted loudly and cleared his throat . " Thank God my moustache filters out some of the stench ...
... looked quite pained . " We might have stopped somewhere else . I suspect that the police will raid this place mo- mentarily anyway . " He snorted loudly and cleared his throat . " Thank God my moustache filters out some of the stench ...
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... looked over the cards and said , " Patrol- man Mancuso here says you resisted arrest and called him a communiss . " " I didn't mean it , " the old man said sadly , noticing how fiercely the sergeant was handling the little cards ...
... looked over the cards and said , " Patrol- man Mancuso here says you resisted arrest and called him a communiss . " " I didn't mean it , " the old man said sadly , noticing how fiercely the sergeant was handling the little cards ...
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