R K Narayan Omnibus Volume 2
Mr Sampath - The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma
- Hardcover
616 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2006
Summary
In the novels of R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), the forefather of Indian fiction, we witness the birth of a nation as it awakens to its place in the world. The three novels brought together in this volume, all written after India’s independence, are masterpieces of social comedy, rich in local colour and abounding in affectionate humour and generosity of spirit.
Mr Sampath - The Printer of Malgudi is the story of a businessman who adapts to the collapse of his weekly newspaper by…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152944 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152948 |
| Author: | R.K. Narayan |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 616 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2006 |
| Weight: | 642g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 136mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Narayan 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 GreeneNarayan’s humour and compassion come from a deep universal well, with the result that he has transformed his imaginary township of Malgudi into a bubbling parish of the world. - The ObserverAn idyll as delicious as anything I have met in modern literature for a long time. The atmosphere and texture of happiness, and, above all, its elusiveness, have seldom been so perfectly transcribed. - Elizabeth Bowen
About The Author
R.K. Narayan
R K Narayan’s writing spans the greatest period of change in modern Indian history, from the days of the Raj - Swami and Friends (1935), The Bachelor of Arts (1937) and The English Teacher (1945) - to recent years of political unrest - The Painter of Signs (1976), A Tiger for Malgudi (1983), and Talkative Man (1987). He has published numerous collections of short stories, including Malgudi Days (1982), and Under the Banyan Tree (1985), and several works of non-fiction.
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