{"product_id":"9780141182865","title":"A Confederacy of Dunces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  TOOLE, JOHN KENNEDY \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 24 March 2000 by PENGUIN BOOKS (N\/A).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | \u003cbr\u003e196 x 130 x 16 | 248g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''My favourite book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it - for your  whole life, in fact' Billy ConnollyA monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy. 'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue'The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43924812267779,"sku":"9780141182865","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780141182865_d24aaf17-67f3-427e-a9e8-7262a4992fc2.jpg?v=1731346216","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.pro\/products\/9780141182865","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}