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A Breath of Lucifer by R. K. Narayan
Category: Fiction
Includes such tales as: "A Breath of Lucifer", "House Opposite", "The Watchman", "Another Community", "Like the Sun", "Uncle's Letters", "Fruition at Forty" and "Half a Rupee's Worth".
A Malgudi Omnibus: "Swami and Friends", "Bachelor of Arts", "English Teacher" by R. K. Narayan
Category: Fiction
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
Mahabharata by NARAYAN R.K.
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Includes characters who are obsessed with the rise and fall of gods, empires and heroes.
Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan
Category: Fiction
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
R. K. Narayan - Swami and Friends, the Bachelor of Arts, the Dark Room, the English Teacher by R. K. Narayan
Category: Fantasy
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 ...Show more
The Abduction of Sita by R.K. Narayan
Category: Fiction
A hero must save the woman he loves. Ravana, the Supreme Lord, has enslaved all the gods. Although he now rules the world, he cannot resist a beautiful woman. When he catches a glimpse of the princess Sita, he falls under her spell and steals her away. Her beloved husband, Rama, will do anything t ...Show more
The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan
Category: Fiction | 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 Painter of Signs by R. K. Narayan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
For Raman the sign painter, life is a familiar and satisfying routine. A man of simple, rational ways, he lives with his pious aunt and prides himself on his creative work. But all that changes when he meets Daisy, a thrillingly independent young woman who wishes to bring birth control to the area. Hire ...Show more
The Painter of Signs by R.K. Narayan
Category: Fiction
In this wry, funny, bitter-sweet story, love gets in the way of progress when Raman, a sign painter, meets the thrillingly independent Daisy, who wishes to bring birth control to the city of Malgudi.