by V. S. Naipaul · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140037128
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«Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion» is the novel by V. S. Naipaul, published by Penguin in paperback (126 pages, in English).
Mr. Stone, a librarian nearing retirement, rejects the idea of retiring. After a brief arrangement with Mrs. Springer, he marries her to ward off loneliness and inactivity. Soon after, he conceives a plan that will give rise to the order of the Knights Companion.
The novel won the Hawthornden Prize in 1964. The novel was originally published in 1963; the Penguin edition is from July 1973.
Suitable for readers of literary fiction and of V. S. Naipaul; in particular, recommended to those approaching retirement.
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer renowned for his works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.
