Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon

By Tom Stoppard

Book Overview

"Zany, aphoristic and flashy . . . a remarkable entertainment, remarkably funny." -The Washington Post

Tom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966 just before the premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is an uproarious fantasy set in modern London.

The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried coach; Malquist's Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket; a couple of cowboys, one being named Jasper Jones; a lion who's banned from the Ritz; an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen Christ; and three irresistible women.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802142710
• ISBN13: 9780802142719
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

What an amazement! 10 and then some.

Its true: this is the best novel of the last 40 years!!! i am so increadibly fond of the stoppard aesthetic which in novel form here reaches a sublimity which is quasi-orgasmic. in the great tradition of stein, becket and joyce, this novel soars with joy while grounding itself with intense realism.

A rare, truly inspired novel.

Tom Stoppard's only novel, and one of the best books I've ever read. Mr. Moon, weighed upon by the crushing pressures of modern society (pressures which, it seems, bother no-one else), toys with a home-made bomb as he dutifully records the revised history of sponsor Lord Malquist. Stoppard brings comic genius and keen philosophical insight to bear on the "human condition". Cowboys, Jesus on a donkey, lions, French maids, Oh My.