Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories by R K Narayan
An enchanting collection from India's foremost storyteller, rich in wry, warmly observed characters from every walk of Indian life - merchants, beggars, herdsmen, rogues - all of whose lives are microcosms of the human experience Like Nambi in the title story, Narayan has the mesmeric ability to spellbind his audience. This he achieves with a masterful combination of economy and rhythm, creating haunting images and a variety of settings to evoke a unique paradox of reality and folklore.-
Of Mice and Men
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The Great Gatsby
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Giovanni's Room
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
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A Month in the Country
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East of Eden
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In Cold Blood
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Animal Farm
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Alone in Berlin
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Man in the High Castle
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On the Road
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Brideshead Revisited
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Lolita
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The Haunting of Hill House
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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A Clockwork Orange
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Orientalism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Crucible
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Ways of Seeing
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Death of a Salesman
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Tokyo Express
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The Wretched of the Earth
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The Lonely Londoners
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Things Fall Apart
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Dubliners
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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The Night Manager
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Mrs Dalloway
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Caliban and the Witch
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Homage to Catalonia
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Ulysses
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The Go-between
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The Ramayana
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Malgudi Days
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The Guide
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A Malgudi Omnibus
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R K Narayan Omnibus Volume 1
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The Painter of Signs
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The Mahabharata
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Swami And Friends
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The English Teacher
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The Man-eater of Malgudi
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R K Narayan Omnibus Volume 2
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Tales from Malgudi
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A Tiger for Malgudi
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Gods Demons And Others
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More Tales From Malgudi
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The Grandmother's Tale
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Waiting for the Mahatma
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The Indian Epics Retold: The Ramayana; the Mahabharata; Gods, Demons And Others
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The Vendor of Sweets
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Talkative Man
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The Financial Expert
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My Dateless Diary
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Malgudi Adventures: Classic Tales for Children
R.K. Narayan was born in Madras, South India, in 1906, and educated there and at Maharaja’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’s work The Guide won him the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy, his country’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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780141186214 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141186216 |
| Title | Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories |
| Author | R K Narayan |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |