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100			_aNarayan, R.K.
245			_aA Story-Teller's World _bStories, Essays, Sketches
260			_aNew Delhi _bPenguin Books India Pvt. Ltd. _c1990
300			_a12, 146
500			_aForty essays, travel pieces, character sketches and short stories from India's greatest living novelist, the majority collected here for the first time. The three sections of the book - 'The Fiction-Writer', 'Short Essays' and 'Malgudi Sketches and Stories' - provide a rare glimpse into R.K.Narayan's beginnings as a writer and his evolution into a world renowned novelist. More importantly, each essay and story is in itself a triumph of Narayan's genius as a close and perceptive observer of the small and ordinary things of life...Finally, taken together, the pieces in this collection (on crowds, films, restaurants, clothes, cats, the English language and school-children among others) give the reader fresh insights into the distinctive aspects of the Indian South which finally achieved immortality in the fictional world of Malgudi.
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