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Product Description: Two comic gems from the father of modern Indian fiction- available in one volume for the first time These two novels show R. K. Narayan at his best, offering enchanting tales of human absurdity that are also skillfully woven parables infused with Hindu mysticism...read more
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9780143105800 | Penguin Classics, July 28, 2009, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Two comic gems from the father of modern Indian fiction- available in one volume for the first time These two novels show R.
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9780143039662 | Penguin Classics, August 29, 2006, cover price $14.00
9780140185492 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, May 1, 1993), cover price $14.00
Product Description: For the centennial of his birth, R. K. Narayan's most celebrated novelFormerly India's most corrupt tourist guide, Raju—just released from prison—seeks refuge in an abandoned temple. Mistaken for a holy man, he plays the part and succeeds so well that God himself intervenes to put Raju's newfound sanctity to the test...read more
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9780143039648 | Penguin Classics, August 29, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: For the centennial of his birth, R.
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9780670451784 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Stories depict the lives of beggars, holy men, students, and the other inhabitants of an imaginary Indian city
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9780143039655 | Penguin Classics, August 29, 2006, cover price $16.00
9788185986173 | Gardners Books, December 1, 2000, cover price $37.00
9780140185430 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, January 1, 1995), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A collection of 32 stories in which the author portrays an astrologer, a snake-charmer, a postman, a vendor of pies and chappatis - all kinds of people, drawn in full colour and domestic detail.
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9781417787944 | Turtleback Books, August 29, 2006, cover price $25.80 | About this edition: A collection of 32 stories in which the author portrays an astrologer, a snake-charmer, a postman, a vendor of pies and chappatis - all kinds of people, drawn in full colour and domestic detail.
Product Description: In a writing career spanning seven decades, R.K. Narayan enthralled and entertained generations of readers with his deftly etched characters, his uniquely stylized language and his wry sense of humour. A storyteller par excellence, Narayan's greatest achievement perhaps lies in creating and peopling the imagined landscapes of a town called Malgudi, located somewhere in South India, which has come alive in story after story in such a way that it has now become a part of modern Indian folklore...read more
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9780670889518 | Viking Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In a writing career spanning seven decades, R.
Product Description: A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career as 'Raja the magnificent', he is then sold into films (co-starring with a beefy Tarzan in a leopard skin) until, finding the human world too brutish and bewildering, he makes a dramatic bid for freedom...read more
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9780670712601 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: A tiger, Raja, who becomes a circus and film star before gaining a reputation as a maneater, embarks on a quest for spiritual enlightenment after his encounter with the Master, a teacher and holy man
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9780140185454 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, October 1, 1994), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle.
Product Description: "There are writers—Tolstoy and Henry James to name two—whom we hold in awe, writers—Turgenev and Chekhov—for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect—Conrad for example—but who hold us at a long arm's length with their 'courtly foreign grace...read more
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9780226568393 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1994), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: "There are writers—Tolstoy and Henry James to name two—whom we hold in awe, writers—Turgenev and Chekhov—for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect—Conrad for example—but who hold us at a long arm's length with their 'courtly foreign grace.
Nagaraj, an aimless, contented man who dreams only of writing a treatise on Narada, a Sanskrit scholar, and his peaceful domestic world are thrown into turmoil by the arrival of his runaway nephew Tim
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9780670831326 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Nagaraj, an aimless, contented man who dreams only of writing a treatise on Narada, a Sanskrit scholar, and his peaceful domestic world are thrown into turmoil by the arrival of his runaway nephew Tim
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9780670813414 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Talkative Man, a young journalist struggling to establish a reputation, pieces together a portrait of the mysterious Dr.
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9780870130250 | Michigan State Univ Pr, June 1, 1957, cover price $6.00
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