reputation internationally. The Financial Expert (1952)‚ his first novel to be published in the United States‚ was followed by a number of other novels‚ The English Teacher (1953)‚ The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961)‚ The Painter of Signs (1976)‚ and A Tiger for Malgudi (1983). Among his short-story collections are Malgudi Days (1982)‚ and The Grandmother’s Tale and Selected Stories (1994). In 1974‚ Narayan published My Days‚ a volume of memoirs‚ and in 1989‚ an additional volume of nonfiction‚ A Story Teller’s
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humor‚ Narayan explores the conflicts between rich and poor‚ and between Indian and Western culture. Narayan is best known for his fourteen novels‚ many of which take place in the fictional town of Malgudi. Many of the stories in his thirteen short story collections also take place in Malgudi‚ but ‘‘A Horse and Two Goats’’ does not. This accounts for the fact that the story has attracted very little critical commentary; however‚ all of the attention it has drawn has been positive. The story is
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Waiting For Mahatma Sriram is a high school graduate who lives with his grandmother in Malgudi‚ the fictional Southern Indian town in which much of Narayan’s fiction takes place. Sriram is attracted to Bharati‚ a girl of his age who is active in Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India movement‚ and he becomes an activist himself. He then gets involved with anti-British extremists‚ causing much grief to his grandmother. Sriram’s underground activity takes place in the countryside‚ an area alien to him‚ and
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William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Mississippi born novelist‚ who was a quiet and private man who once observed‚ “It is my ambition to be‚ as a private individual‚ abolished and voided from society.” Known for his distinctive voice and his evocative depictions of life in the American South‚ Nobel laureate William Faulkner is recognized as one of the most important authors of the twentieth century. The myth of Yoknapatawpha Yoknapatawpha is a fictional place created by
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS AS LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 9695 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe 2. The Open Boat Stephen Crane 3. The Door in the Wall HG Wells 4. The People Before Maurice
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learns that she belongs to dancing girl class and has come to their house to perfect her dancing. (Kantak 76) In the novel‚ The Guide‚ the main protagonist‚ Raju is fixed in actuality in Malgudi during his childhood days. Raju does not go to school but studies magazines and books from his shop on the platform of Malgudi station. He advances his knowledge and information about the world. Raju becomes a tourist guide and all travellers prefer to be instructed by him because of his fame and talent as a
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I N T R O D U C T I O N —— A novelist of all humanity R. K. Narayan’s novels are like a box of Indian sweets: a highly-coloured container conceals a range of delectable treats‚ all different in a subtle way‚ but each one clearly from the same place. There are fourteen novels in the oeuvre – enough to create a world. Enthusiasts of his work will read them all and return to them time and again. The busy‚ or the less committed‚ may open the box and take out one at random – it does not really matter
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the significance of whose being a ‘man¬ about town’ characteristic is brought out quite admirably. He seems to be the cousin of the whole of Malgudi; and in that capacity he has entry into the houses of judges‚ businessman advocates etc. The reader comes to know through him that he does various chores for a great number of families in the city of Malgudi. A great lover of sweets‚ like most of us‚ he is a self-appointed sweet-taster of extraordinary importance to Jagan. A reader is free to discern
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Indian writing in English Raja Rammohan Ray was the first Indian to effectively express himself in black and white through English though he was initiated to the language when he was in his teens. Thereafter Vivekananda showed his perfect masterly over the language through his evocative prose‚ which made the west sit up and take notice of the greatness of Hinduism. Tagore also had written some poems in English. However‚ there is no denying the fact that Indian writings in English were extremely
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Indo Anglian Literature Indo Anglian Literature refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian diaspora‚ such as V. S. Naipaul‚ Kiran Desai‚ Jhumpa Lahiri who are of Indian descent. It is frequently referred to as Indo-Anglian literature. (Indo-Anglian is a specific term in the sole context of writing that should
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