Ads
related to: famous books of rk narayan
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Novels by R. K. Narayan" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. The Bachelor of ...
R. K. Narayan was born in a Tamil Hindu family [4] on 10 October 1906 in Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu), British India. [5] He was one of eight children; six sons and two daughters. Narayan was second among the sons; his younger brother Ramachandran later became an editor at Gemini Studios , and the youngest brother Laxman became a cartoonist.
Swami and Friends is the first novel written by Sir R. K Narayan. [2] It was published through the intervention of a friend and neighbour, "Kittu" Purna, who was studying at Oxford. Through him, Graham Greene came into contact with Narayan's work, became especially interested in it and took it upon himself to place the book with a reputable ...
Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India.
The Guide is a 1958 novel written in English by the Indian author R. K. Narayan. Like most of his works, the events of this novel take place in Malgudi, a fictional town in South India. The novel describes the transformation of the protagonist, Raju, from a tour guide to a spiritual guide and then one of the greatest holy men of India.
Short story collections by R. K. Narayan (6 P) Pages in category "Books by R. K. Narayan" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
This is the title story of this collection of tales by R.K. Narayan. It concludes the collection with the story of a simple village in South India called Somal, where an aged storyteller named Nambi lived. Nambi seems to resemble R.K. Narayan, especially in relation to R.K. Narayan during his later career.
The Bachelor of Arts (1937) is a novel written by R. K. Narayan. It is the second book of a trilogy that begins with Swami and Friends and ends with The English Teacher . [ 1 ] It is again set in Malgudi , the fictional town Narayan invented for his novels.