One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'.

'My favorite book of all time... it stays with you long after you've read it - in fact, for your entire life' - Billy Connolly.

A monument of tardiness, protest, and contempt, a giant of obesity, the airline industry, and enraged suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, a noble crusader against a world full of idiots. The ordinary people of New Orleans seem to think he's crazy. Ignatius ignores them, pushing his own immense mass through the city's edibles on a noble quest against sin, the modern age, and ignorance. But his mother has an unpleasant surprise for him: Ignatius must find a job. Reluctantly, he uses his new job to advance his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot dog cart to do it...

Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's humorous satire, 'A Confederacy of Dunces' is a modern-day Don Quixote, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy. 'A spicy work of slapstick, satire, and intellectual anomalies... nothing less than a grand comic fugue' - The New York Times.

Pages: 352, Dimensions: 13x13cm.