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A Novel

The Guide

A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic

The Ramayana

Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories

The Mahabharata

The Vendor of Sweets

The Man-eater of Malgudi

History

And Other Dystopian Novellas

The Portrait of My Double

Memory of Fire

The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn

The Life Before Us

The Adventures of Natsuko

The Green Shutters

Medusa's Laugh

The Notebook Trilogy

Weep Not, Child

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East of Eden

Vilhelm's Room

Trafalgar

The Trial

A Month in the Country

The Greatest Empire That Never Was

Kalpa Imperial

1944-1959

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Parade's End

Dubliners

The Painter of Signs

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In this wry, funny, bittersweet 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.

R.K. Narayan was born in Madras, South India, in 1906, and educated there and at Maharaja&rsquo;s College in Mysore. His first novel, Swami and Friends and its successor, The Bachelor of Arts, are both set in the enchanting fictional territory of Malgudi and are only two out of the twelve novels he based there. In 1958 Narayan&rsquo;s work The Guide won him the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy, his country&rsquo;s highest literary honor. In addition to his novels, Narayan has authored five collections of short stories, including A Horse and Two Goats, Malguidi Days, and Under the Banyan Tree, two travel books, two volumes of essays, a volume of memoirs, and the re-told legends Gods, Demons and Others, The Ramayana, and the Mahabharata. In 1980 he was awarded the A.C. Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature and in 1982 he was made an Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Narayan died in 2001.

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