A Confederacy of DuncesWinner of the Pulitzer Prize A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. 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

His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him

and countless other threats to their nine lives

and create the positive mindset and habits needed to win the day

the birth of bioethics

as she writes about loneliness

Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before

they continue to meet on the same date every year

with a facts and photos section at the back

Professor Robinson’s views start seeping into conversations

have been alive for one hundred years

Sensitive and intelligent

Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease