V. S. Naipaul

Bibliography

A selection of works by V.S. Naipaul
The Mystic Masseur. – London: Deutsch, 1957.
Miguel Street. – London: Deutsch, 1959.
A House for Mr. Biswas. – London: Deutsch, 1961.
The Middle Passage : Impressions of Five Societies – British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America. – London: Deutsch, 1962.
Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion. – London: Deutsch, 1963.
A Flag on the Island. – London: Deutsch, 1967.
The Mimic Men. – London : Deutsch, 1967.
The Loss of El Dorado : a History. – London: Deutsch, 1969.
In a Free State. – London: Deutsch, 1971.
The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles. – London: Deutsch, 1972.
Guerrillas. – London: Deutsch, 1975.
India : a Wounded Civilization. – London: Deutsch, 1977.
A Bend in the River. – London: Deutsch, 1979.
A Congo Diary. – Los Angeles, CA: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980.
Among the Believers : an Islamic Journey. – London: Deutsch, 1981.
The Enigma of Arrival. – London: Viking, 1987.
India : a Million Mutinies Now. – London: Heinemann, 1990.
A Way in the World. – London: Heinemann, 1994.
Beyond Belief : Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples. – London: Little, Brown, 1998.
Reading and Writing : a Personal Account. – New York: New York Review of Books, 2000.
Half a Life. – London: Picador, 2001.
The Writer and the World : Essays. Introduced and edited by Pankaj Mishra. London : Picador, 2002 ; New York : Knopf, 2002
Literary Occasions : Essays. Introduced and edited by Pankaj Mishra. – London : Picador, 2003 ; New York : Knopf, 2003
Magic Seeds : [novel]. – London : Picador, 2003 ; New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004
Vintage Naipaul. – New York : Vintage Books, 2004
A Writer’s People : Ways of Looking and Feeling. – London : Picador, 2007
The Masque of Africa : Glimpses of African Belief. – New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010
 
Critical studies
Theroux, Paul, V.S. Naipaul : an Introduction to his Work. – London: Deutsch, 1972.
Hamner, Robert, V.S. Naipaul. – New York: Twayne, 1973.
Critical Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul. Ed. Robert D. Hamner. – London: Heinemann, 1979.
Nightingale, Peggy, Journey through Darkness : The Writing of V.S. Naipaul. – St. Lucia: Univ. of Queensland Press, 1987.
Hughes, Peter, V.S. Naipaul. – London: Routledge, 1988.
Jarvis, Kelvin, V.S. Naipaul : a Selective Bibliography with Annotations, 1957–1987. – Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow, 1989.
Kelly, Richard, V.S. Naipaul. – New York: Continuum, 1989.
Weiss, Timothy F., On the Margins : The Art of Exile in V.S. Naipaul. – Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
Dissanayake, Wimal, Self and Colonial Desire : Travel Writings of V.S. Naipaul. – New York: P. Lang, 1993.
King, Bruce, V.S. Naipaul. – Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993.
Levy, Judith, V.S. Naipaul : Displacement and Autobiography. – New York: Garland, 1995.
Conversations with V.S. Naipaul. Ed. Feroza Jussawalla. – Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1997.
Khan, Akhtar Jamal, V.S. Naipaul : A Critical Study. – New Delhi: Creative Books, 1998.
Theroux, Paul, Sir Vidia’s Shadow : A Friendship across Five Continents. – Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Naipaul, V.S., Pour en finir avec vos mensonges : Sir Vidia en conversations. Traduit de l’anglais par Isabelle di Natale et Béatrice Dunner. – Monaco : Rocher, 2001
Hayward, Helen, The Enigma of V.S. Naipaul : Sources and Contexts. – New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
King, Bruce, V.S. Naipaul. 2. ed. – Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
Barnouw, Dagmar, Naipaul’s Strangers. – Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2003
Dooley, Gillian, V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer. – Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2006
French, Patrick, The World is What it is : the Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul. – London : Picador, 2008

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