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A Malgudi Omnibus: "Swami and Friends", "Bachelor of Arts", "English Teacher" by R. K. Narayan
Category: Classics
Here are three of R. K. Narayan's most famous and best loved novels: Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher. All set in the imaginary Indian town of Malgudi, these irresistible works provide the perfect introduction to a universal world of humour, sadness, wisdom and joy.
Financial Expert, The by R.K. Narayan
Category: Fiction
In the shade of a banyan tree sits Margayva, self-styled advisor on the complex minor transactions. But a scrape with officialdom in the form of an unplanned interview with the Bank's Secretary - and a mishap which finds his spoilt son Balu throwing his accounts book down a drain - temporarily cuts shor ...Show more
Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan
Category: Classics
Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India 'the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story'. "Malgudi Days" is the marvellous result. Here, Narayan portrays an astrologer, a snake-charmer, a postman, a vendor of pies and chappat ...Show more
R. K. Narayan - Swami and Friends, the Bachelor of Arts, the Dark Room, the English Teacher by R. K. Narayan
Category: Classics
"Mr Sampath - The Printer of Malgudiis the story of a businessman who adapts to the collapse of his weekly newspaper by shifting to screenplays, only to have the glamour of it all go to his head. In The Financial Expert, a man of many hopes but few resources spends his time under a banyan tree dispensin ...Show more
The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
Krishna, an English teacher in the town of Malgudi, nagged by the feeling he's doing the wrong work, is nonetheless delighted by his domestic life, where his wife and young daughter wait for him outside the house every afternoon. Devastated by the death of his wife, Krishna comes to realise what he real ...Show more
The Guide: A Novel by R. K. Narayan
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop. Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju used to be India's most corrupt tourist guide - but now a peasant mistakes him for a holy man. Gradually, almost grudgingly, he begins to play the part. He succeeds so well t ...Show more
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age, out ...Show more
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