{"product_id":"all-about-h-hatterr-paperback","title":"All about H. Hatterr - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eG. V. Desani\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnthony Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, \u003ci\u003eAll About H. Hatterr\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG. V. Desani (1909--2001) was born Nairobi, Kenya and raised in India. In the late 1930s, and throughout the war, he was a BBC broadcaster and lectured on India. He contributed regularly to \u003ci\u003eThe Times of India\u003c\/i\u003e's \u003ci\u003eIllustrated Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e and produced a weekly opinion page called Very High and Very Low. He moved to the United States in 1970 to teach at Boston University and subsequently the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Professor of Religion and Philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnthony Burgess (1917-1993) was a prolific novelist, composer, librettist, essayist, semanticist, translator, and critic. He is best known for the novel \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 7.98 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771264794912,"sku":"9781590172421","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c521eb3aac69792bf2efe5d09b4cdb36.webp?v=1780383809","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/all-about-h-hatterr-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}