Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr 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.”

Title: all about H. Hatterr

Series: n/a

Author: G.V. Desani

Hardcover: 300 pages

Printing: 1st

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Young (1951)

Language: English

Condition: VG (See Condition Notes)

Condition Notes: Hardcover with jacket. Jacket is unclipped and in Good to Very Good - condition. Small tears and some light chipping to edges of jacket. Larger tear to top right front of jacket near the spine side, as well as some light staining to inside flaps of jacket. Hardcover with bluish boards in VG condition. A touch of sunning to edges of boards. Toning to page ends. Light staining to inside front board, spine side. Text and pages clean and unmarked. Jacket protected by a Brodart adjustable cover.