A Confederacy of Dunces is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American comic masterpiece by John Kennedy Toole. The novel introduces Ignatius J. Reilly, a “huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter.” His journey through New Orleans’ lower depths is filled with an array of wholly original characters and incredibly true-to-life dialogue that makes this novel a grand comic fugue. From zany high and low adventures to the rich tapestry of denizens populating the French Quarter, Toole’s work astonishes with its inventiveness and humor. Published on January 21, 1994, by Grove Press, the book has a print length of 416 pages and is available under ISBN-13: 978-0802130204.