A House for Mr Biswas

by

V. S. Naipaul

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Charles Dickens Term Analysis

A famous Victorian English novelist, to whom V.S. Naipaul is often compared, best known for writing social commentary. Mr Biswas discovered that reading Dickens “ridiculed and diminished” his own struggles in life, motivating him to

Charles Dickens Quotes in A House for Mr Biswas

The A House for Mr Biswas quotes below are all either spoken by Charles Dickens or refer to Charles Dickens. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2, Chapter 2 Quotes

“I don’t want you to be like me.”

Related Characters: Mr Biswas (speaker), Anand
Page Number: 359
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