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Genre/Form: | Fiction Humorous fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
R K Narayan |
ISBN: | 9781400044771 1400044774 1857152948 9781857152944 |
OCLC Number: | 64574159 |
Description: | xxxviii, 578 pages ; 21 cm. |
Contents: | Mister Sampath, the printer of Malgudi -- The financial expert -- Waiting for Mahatma. |
Series Title: | Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.), 294. |
Other Titles: | Novels. Mister Sampath, the printer of Malgudi |
Responsibility: | R.K. Narayan ; with an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith. |
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Abstract:
In Waiting for the Mahatma, a young drifter meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen - an adherent of Mahatma Gandhi - and commits himself to Gandhi's Quit India campaign, a decision that will test the integrity of his ideals against the strength of his passions.
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"Narayan wakes in me a spring of gratitude, for he has offered me a second home. Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian. - Graham GreeneNarayan's humour and compassion come from a deep universal well, with the result that he has transformed his imaginary township of Malgudi into a bubbling parish of the world. - The ObserverAn idyll as delicious as anything I have met in modern literature for a long time. The atmosphere and texture of happiness, and, above all, its elusiveness, have seldom been so perfectly transcribed. - Elizabeth Bowen" Read more...
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by robwithers updated 2018-05-16