Biography EssayPaul Theroux's novels, short stories, essays, and travel books, in which he often explores the expatriate experience and the postcolonial world of developing countries, have established...
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Paul Theroux (born 1941) was an expatriate American writer of numerous works of fiction and of the chronicles of his own travels by train throughout the world. He was a keen observer of the relationsh...
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The author of over three dozen books, Paul Theroux has earned a reputation as travel writer par excellence and as a novelist whose works speak of colonialism and of the expatriate experience. For many...
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Paul Theroux, an American novelist who has lived and written as an expatriate since 1963, was born in Medford, Massachusetts, on 10 April 1941, to Albert Eugene and Anne Dittami Theroux. Following his...
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Paul Theroux has achieved international fame and literary accolades for his travel writings, novels, short stories, poetry, and critical essays. Just as his literary interests shape his travel writing...
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Critical Essay by Frederick Busch
The Mosquito Coast has already been greeted in England as a denunciation of America's failures, and it may well be so greeted here. Paul Theroux, who lives in...
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Critical Essay by Jack Beatty
The Mosquito Coast is a seemingly straightforward adventure story which ends with a splotch of Lord of the Flies-like horror and which trails clouds of dark parable behi...
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Critical Essay by Robert Towers
There is so much to marvel at in The Mosquito Coast—Theroux's orchestration of his story, his marshaling of technological knowledge, the easy authority w...
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Teaching The Mosquito Coast
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The Mosquito Coast Lesson Plans contain 108 pages of teaching material, including:
The Famous
Therouxs
The name
Theroux
was already well-known when
Louis
was growing up, as his father is the
writer
Paul
Theroux
. His dad's novels, which include "The Mosquito Coast", tend t...
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Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
Paul (Edward) Theroux
Critical Essay by Frederick Busch
The Weird World of LouisTheroux
