Author(s): Naipaul, V.S.
Reader(s): Dastor, Sam
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Fiction
Period: Contemporary
Catalogue No: NA0286
Barcode: 9781781980835
Release Date: 09/2017

NAIPAUL, V.S.: House for Mr Biswas (A) (Unabridged)

Tracklist

Disc 1
Naipaul, V.S. - Author
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
1A House for Mr. Biswas06:43
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2Prologue08:19
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3The solicitor's clerk lived in every house he built.07:53
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4Part 1. 1: Pastoral10:23
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5The subsequent quarrel and threats cleared the air.11:08
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6Dhari, the next-door neighbour…09:59
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7Lakhan the carter said…09:14
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
8Bipti was bathed. Her hair, still wet…08:00
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 2
1Because no cooking could be done at their house…09:53
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
22: Before the Tulsis10:53
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3Mr. Biswas was taught other things.10:51
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4For eight months, in a bare, spacious, unpainted…10:02
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5Soanie stood in the doorway, blocking the light.08:57
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6Ajodha had bought a motorbus…10:14
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7Bhandat was spending more week-ends away…08:52
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
8On Monday morning he set about looking…03:44
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 3
1The men drivers sat on their carts…08:50
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2They went on a tour of the small hut…08:00
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3After a time he started to go again to Tara's.08:58
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
43: The Tulsis10:36
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5The note was in Mrs. Tulsi's hand.09:47
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6He put the cup down when he heard someone…08:51
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7'We never had a quarrel,' Mrs. Tulsi said.10:51
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
8He felt unchanged, unmarried.07:43
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 4
1'What?' Shama said in English.09:46
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2Mr. Biswas thought of Govind as a fellow…11:58
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3Before he could decide, C and Padma…10:10
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4After he had spoken Pankaj Rai distributed…10:21
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5'Just a moment,' Mr. Biswas said. 'Not so fast…'10:24
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6In the Rose Room, then, after a faint…08:47
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7In the long room Mr. Biswas gathered…11:56
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 5
1They heard the hall return to life.09:11
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
24: The Chase09:57
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3In his careless retreat the previous tenant…11:13
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4Shama was determined to do things well.10:04
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5The beating had ceased to be a simple…10:23
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6Shama was a puzzle. Within the girl…09:29
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7He asked, 'what is that, eh?'11:24
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 6
1Moti did not belong to the village.08:18
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2Mungroo was the leader of the village…09:23
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3'Slowly, slowly, brothers and sisters…'08:22
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4In all, Mr. Biswas lived for six years at The Chase.08:18
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5All this made Mr. Biswas uneasy…10:21
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6Once, years before, he was conducting…09:06
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7Mr. Biswas went in by the tall side gate.08:33
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
8Savi fumbled ineffectually again.10:52
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 7
1Mr. Biswas felt that talk like this belonged…05:32
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
25: Green Veil10:55
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3Seth took out a roll of dollar notes…11:23
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4After breakfast – tea and biscuits…11:02
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5Chinta got up, straightened out her long skirt…10:33
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6Mr. Biswas closed his eyes, rocked on the noisy…11:45
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7Each side patronised the other…12:07
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 8
1Anand followed Mr. Biswas outside…10:20
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2Mr. Biswas walked away from Mr. Maclean…11:31
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3Surreptitiously rubbing his paining finger…11:51
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4Mr. Biswas said, 'You think they're going…?'11:24
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5Every day Mr. Biswas went to the site…11:01
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6As the sugarcane grew taller…10:04
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7He saw no one. The barracks had gone to sleep.08:27
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 9
1One Saturday Seth said, while they were…10:13
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2He was beginning to enjoy the argument.11:42
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3There were many reasons why Mr. Biswas…10:43
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4The early morning breeze dropped.06:54
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5Anything could sound like talk…06:47
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
66: A Departure09:05
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7Almost as soon as the doctor had gone…09:41
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
8The thin, short-winded and repetitive cry…08:11
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 10
1Part 2. 1: Amazing Scenes10:39
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2The organisation of the city…11:41
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3He went up the central steps and found himself…10:46
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4Mr. Biswas was given paint and a brush…09:07
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5But within the walls of the office…09:06
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6Hari, in his pundit's clothes…11:05
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7The cover had to be taken off and licked…10:59
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 11
1At home one day Anand began singing…11:57
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2It was not long after this that Mr. Biswas…11:11
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3Shekhar was coming to spend a week-end…10:38
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4The next day Mr. Biwas wrote an angry article…07:50
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5In the week before Owad's departure…08:11
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
62: The New Regime08:00
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7Change followed change. At Pagotes Tara…08:24
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
8It was only to Shama that Mr. Biswas spoke…07:47
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 12
1He read political books. They gave him phrases…11:39
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2For many days Anand didn't speak…11:27
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3Towards the end of that year a letter came…13:08
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
43: The Short Hills Adventure08:47
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5Soon she received impressive assistance.10:05
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6Then at the far end of the cricket ground…09:31
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7The money was little but regular…09:16
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 13
1Theophile was a blacksmith whose trade…11:57
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2So for the children Shorthills became a nightmare.11:06
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3About a fortnight after Hari died news came…08:40
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4Buds, stalks and leaves were collected…09:50
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5The speed with which the house went up…09:33
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6One of the smoke wisps shrank…10:04
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
74: Among the Readers and Learners13:20
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 14
1It was now that he began to speak…10:01
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2And other dangers. Once, climbing up a short…09:46
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3It was not long after this that Mr. Biswas…10:11
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4Mr. Biswas tried to avoid Bhandat's gaze…09:48
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5When the children asked Mr. Biswas…08:25
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6After the acquisition of the glass cabinet…08:41
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7With the exhibition examination less than two…09:02
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
8'You go,' Mr. Biswas said. Anand's cheeks bulged…08:25
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 15
1It was as Anand feared. The exhibition candidates…08:08
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2Mr. Biswas took back his pen. It dripped with ink.08:10
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3Mr. Biswas found himself a little out of his depth…11:16
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4But the wound was still there, too deep…09:38
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5The school had taken the first four places…11:01
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
65: The Void09:24
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7How many letters of resignation…08:21
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
8On Saturday Shama began packing a hamper.08:18
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 16
1They stopped at Balandra…12:55
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2The interviews completed…09:03
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3They parked the car in the road…08:18
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4Not long after Basdai reported that the tenants…08:51
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5For every puja Mrs. Tulsi tried a different pundit…09:12
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6And though he had nerved himself for the blow…09:09
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7There was little need for her to worry.08:12
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
86: The Revolution04:21
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 17
1The cavalcade left the house in sections.12:10
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
2For a full week the festival continued.09:37
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3While they waited for the revolution…10:50
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4The game dragged on. Anand played worse…10:40
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5The light from the diningroom came through…08:26
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
6Shortly after he had been taken on the Sentinel…09:33
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
7When, racing into the house out of the rain…08:23
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
Disc 18
1Between eight hundred dollars…09:53
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
27: The House08:09
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
3But at last they could leave the Tulsi house.09:23
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
4W.C. Tuttle played with the hairs in his nose…08:10
Dastor, Sam (Reader)
5Epilogue12:05
Dastor, Sam (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 21:29:47