• ISBN13: 9780434496082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publisher Imprint: Heinemann
• Publication Date: October 15, 1979
• Pages: 219
• Original Price: GBP 9.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

About The Author: R. K. Narayan was born on October 10, 1906 in Madras, Brtitsh India. He graduated from Maharaja College of Mysore with a B.A. degree in 1930. He became a school teacher for a short period of time but soon decided he wanted a career in writing and stayed home to write novels. R. K. Narayan is one of the few Indian writers who has captured a wide audience in the United States and Great Britain, as well as in his native India. All of his many novels, gentle social comedies of middle-class life, take place in Malgudi, an imaginary town in southern India that serves as a kind of "golden mean", neither a large, impersonal city nor an obscure, isolated village, through which Narayan explores the dilemmas of modernization. For example, The Bachelor of Arts is the story of a sensitive youth caught in a conflict between Western ideas of love and marriage instilled in him by his education and the still-traditional milieu in which he lives. Malgudi is a microcosm of modern India, and throughout Narayan's novels, which span more than fifty years of India's growth, we can watch Malgudi's inhabitants evolve in precisely the same way that their hometown does. Narayan's wit and literary skill have made him a favorite with readers all over the world. He died of typhoid in 1939.