The Magic Of Malgudi

Author : R. K. Narayan
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140298857
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Malgudi written by R. K. Narayan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2000 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Master Of Observation, Subtlety And Gentle Wit, R.K. Narayan Has Few Rivals When It Comes To Bringing Alive People And Places. Most Of His Timeless Novels Are Set In The Fictional Town Of Malgudi, Located Somewhere In South India, A Town As Real To His Readers As Any They Will Find On The Map. This Volume Contains Three Quintessential Malgudi Novels-Swami And Friends, The Bachelor Of Arts And The Vendor Of Sweets. Swami And Friends, Published In 1935, Was The First Novel Narayan Wrote. Described By Graham Greene As A Novel In Ten Thousand , It Recounts The Adventures Of Ten-Year-Old Swaminathan And His Friends Rajam And Mani. The Bachelor Of Arts, The Second Novel In The Collection, Is A Brilliantly Realized Account Of The Workings Of A Young Man S Mind. It Is The Story Of Chandran, In His Final Year At College, Who Falls Hopelessly In Love And Is Forced To Exile Himself From The Familiar Surroundings Of Malgudi Until He Is Able To Arrive At A Satisfactory Resolution To His Problems. The Vendor Of Sweets Showcases A Classic Cross-Generational Battle, Between Jagan, A Widower Of Firm Ghandian Principles, And His Modern Son Mali, Who Returns To Malgudi With A Half-American Wife And A Grand Plan For Selling Story-Writing Machines. The Third In The Series Of Penguin India S Collectors Editions Of The Malgudi Novels, The Magic Of Malgudi, With An Introduction By S. Krishnan, Will Delight First-Time Readers As Well As Devoted Narayan Fans.

Author : R. K. Narayan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345803795
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swami and Friends written by R. K. Narayan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan’s beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan’s excitement about his country’s initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. Written during British rule, this novel brings colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.

Author : R. K. Narayan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143039655
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malgudi Days written by R. K. Narayan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial 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." Composed of powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents Narayan's imaginary city in full color, revealing the essence of India and of human experience. This edition includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize- winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : R. K. Narayan
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787202143
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting For Mahatma written by R. K. Narayan and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of the Indian Freedom Movement, this fiction novel from award-winning Indian writer R. K. Narayan traces the adventures of a young man, Sriram, who is suddenly removed from a quiet, apathetic existence and, owing to his involvement in the campaign of Mahatma Gandhi against British rule in India, thrust into a life as adventurously varied as that of any picaresque hero. “There are writers—Tolstoy and Henry James to name two—whom we hold in awe, writers—Turgenev and Chekhov—for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect—Conrad, for example—but who hold us at a long arm’s length with their ‘courtly foreign grace.’ Narayan (whom I don’t hesitate to name in such a context) more than any of them wakes in me a spring of gratitude, for he has offered me a second home. Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian.”—Graham Greene “R. K. Narayan...has been compared to Gogol in England, where he has acquired a well-deserved reputation. The comparison is apt, for Narayan, an Indian, is a writer of Gogol’s stature, with the same gift for creating a provincial atmosphere in a time of change....One is convincingly involved in this alien world without ever being aware of the technical devices Narayan so brilliantly employs.”—Anthony West, The New Yorker

Author : R. K. Narayan
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140289190
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Town Called Malgudi written by R. K. Narayan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1999 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Writing Career Spanning Seven Decades, R.K. Narayan Enthralled And Entertained Generations Of Readers With His Deftly Etched Characters, His Uniquely Stylized Language And His Wry Sense Of Humour. A Storyteller Par Excellence, Narayan S Greatest Achievement Perhaps Lies In Creating And Peopling The Imagined Landscapes Of A Town Called Malgudi, Located Somewhere In South India, Which Has Come Alive In Story After Story In Such A Way That It Has Now Become A Part Of Modern Indian Folklore. This Collection Brings Between Two Covers Some Of The Most Memorable Fiction That Has Emerged From R.K. Narayan S Pen. It Contains The Man-Eater Of Malgudi, Which Tells The Story Of Nataraj, Owner Of A Small Printing Press, And His Houseguest Vasu, A Taxidermist, Who Moves Into Nataraj S Attic With A Menagerie Of Dead Animals. There Is Also Talkative Man, A Novella That Starts Off With The Arrival On The Delhi Train Of A Stranger In A Blue Suit Who Takes Up Residence In The Station Waiting Room And Refuses To Budge. Also Included Here Are Some Of The Most Popular And Striking Short Stories Narayan Has Written: From The Celebrated A Horse And Two Goats And Salt And Sawdust To Gems Like An Astrologer S Day , The Shelter And Under The Banyan Tree . Encapsulating The Very Best Of R.K. Narayan S Remarkable Output, This Is A Fitting Tribute To One Of The Greatest Modern Writers In The English Language.

Author : R K Narayan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184750757
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Story Teller's World written by R K Narayan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REQUIRED, THE STORY-TELLER COULD HAVE AN AUDIENCE BUT IN THIS CASE HE WOULDN'T BE READING FROM HIS MS, BUT WOULD BE LOOKING AT THE VILLAGERS. I MUCH PREFER THE STORY-TELLER ALONE.

Author : R. K. Narayan
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780140185461
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talkative Man written by R. K. Narayan and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Talkative Man tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at the Malgudi train station to pursue a purported U.N. project. The stranger winds up staying at Talkative Man's home, where he begins to seduce the librarian's daughter.

Author : R. K. Narayan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099282525
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Nagaraj written by R. K. Narayan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandly uninvolved in the bustle of Malgudi, Nagaraj enjoys a purposeless but orderly life of prayer, gossip and a little book-keeping at Coomar's Boeing Sari Centre. Fulfilment, however, eludes him. And even in his desultory determination to write his magnum opus, something always seems to prevent him getting started.Then crisis visits Nagaraj in the person of Tim, his tearaway young nephew, whose escapades not only serve to expose his weaknesses, but also to give him a hundred and one excuses for delay .

Author : R. K. Narayan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101662212
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man-Eater of Malgudi written by R. K. Narayan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-05-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Nataraj, who earns his living as a printer in the little world of Malgudi, an imaginary town in South India. Nataraj and his close friends, a poet and a journalist, find their congenia l days disturbed when Vasu, a powerful taxidermist, moves in with his stuffed hyenas and pythons, and brings his dancing-women up the printer's private stairs. When Vasu, in search of larger game, threatens the life of a temple elephant that Natara j has befriended, complications ensue that are both laughable and tragic.

Author : Janet G. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838909671
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.