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A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole · 2000

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4,245·Classic

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Ryan HolidayAuthor & Stoic philosopher

John Kennedy Toole’s great book A Confederacy of Dunces was universally turned down by publishers, news that so broke his heart that he later committed suicide in his car on an empty road in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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