Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of "Living." Each teacher delivers himself of a ...
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Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of "Living." Each teacher delivers himself of a great "Generality," each great Generality launches a new great "Adventure," from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, "it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure."
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Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. New York Review Books Classics. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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VG. 2 page clipped at top corner. Binding solid, pages crisp and clean, no markings found. Price clipped dust jacket bright and shiny with light scuffs and dents. Extremities lightly bumped with minimal tip wear.
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Good in good dust jacket. 287 p. 21 cm. Nice clean condition; great reading; intro by Anthony Burgess; 1977 printing it seems by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Very good in fair dust jacket. 300 p. 1951 stated 1st (US) printing. DJ is pretty beat up, w a lot of chipping, edgewear (some tears closed) & soil (it does still have the $3 price on front flap), bk itself is VG, w sunning, corners bumped, and light tanning. First published in London in 1948 under title: All about Mr. Hatterr.