The 35th anniversary edition of A Confederacy of Dunces celebrates Toole's novel as well as one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubbed "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy Unlock the more straightforward side of A Confederacy of Dunces with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! An obese New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a workers' revolt, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Reilly into a New York City winter wonderland, where our Falstaffian hero inadvertently becomes vice president of the Charlie Chan For the novel's millions of fans, Cynthia LeJeune Nobles's "A Confederacy of Dunces" Cookbook offers recipes inspired by the delightfully commonplace and always delicious fare of Ignatius and his cohorts.
This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole. The book's outrageous protagonist, Ignatius Reilly, is an icon of contemporary American fiction.
Now Ken and Thelma sheds new light on the tragic life story of the author, known as 'Ken' to his friends. The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. Ken and Thelma features personal photographs, many never before published. I am not in the book; I've never pretended to be. Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for The manuscript was finally published twenty years after Toole's death. I, John Kennedy Toole is the novelized story of the funny, tragic, riveting narrative behind the making of an American masterpiece.
Skip to content. 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.
Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Ignatius P. Reilly, a product of Ignatius J's New Orleans neighborhood, is a pound college star whose NFL destiny is sidetracked by a football injury. Not to be diminished, I. Ignatius P stretches his luck and his madcap schemes about as far as can be done as he works himself into the Bachmann campaign while countering the vicious assaults from Lizza and Myrna.
But wait. Readers will be overwhelmed by the unexpected!!! Jonathan Swift's Thoughts on Various Subjects, originally published as an essay in , is a collection of wit and wisdom from one of the English language's finest wordsmiths and greatest satirists. Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric. He is regarded by many as the finest prose satirist in the English language. Reilly, an overweight genius misfit, winds up selling wienies for Paradise Vendors, Inc.
In "Managing Ignatius", Strahan relates his amusing--and bemusing--experiences working for more than two decades with the audacious characters who comprise the actual stable of Lucky Dog vendors. Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump.
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more hard-hitting than ever. Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes readers through another year of the shocking events involving Trump and his administration. The book arrives at a time when it's needed most. With all-new poems and never-before-seen line drawings, Lithgow will once again make readers laugh and pause to remember some of the most defining moments in recent history—skewering the reign of King Dumpty one stanza at a time.
Digital audio edition read by the author. Skip to content. A Confederacy of Dunces. A Confederacy of Dunces Book Review:. A Confederacy of Dunces 35th Anniversary Edition. The Neon Bible. The Neon Bible Book Review:. I John Kennedy Toole. Theology and Geometry. Theology and Geometry Book Review:. A Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook.
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