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# Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

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R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism. Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan’s beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan’s excitement about his country’s initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. The Bachelor of Arts is a poignant coming-of-age novel about a young man flush with first love, but whose freedom to pursue it is hindered by the fixed ideas of his traditional Hindu family. In The Dark Room , Narayan’s portrait of aggrieved domesticity, the docile and obedient Savitri, like many Malgudi women, is torn between submitting to her husband’s humiliations and trying to escape them. The title character in The English Teacher , Narayan’s most autobiographical novel, searches for meaning when the death of his young wife deprives him of his greatest source of happiness. These pioneering novels, luminous in their detail and refreshingly free of artifice, are a gift to twentieth-century literature.

Review: I remember being terribly moved by The English Teacher - I just re-read The Dark Room, which has stayed with me for years and years. I found it even more heartbreaking than before. Narayan helps the reader inhabit and personalities and feelings of characters very quickly. Years ago, I remember being terribly moved by The English Teacher, which I will re-read again soon. He is a treasure.
Review: Swami and Friends - This was the stuff I was looking for: The English Teacher contains a thinly veiled autobiographical account of the death of Narayan's wife. It was very interesting to learn about Hindu death and cremation services. The account of how he used a medium to get in touch with her spirit, who was constantly watching over him and their child, was riveting.

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| Best Sellers Rank | #1,236,253 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2,599 in Cultural Heritage Fiction #10,587 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #35,820 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 48 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I remember being terribly moved by The English Teacher
*by L***R on December 7, 2014*

I just re-read The Dark Room, which has stayed with me for years and years. I found it even more heartbreaking than before. Narayan helps the reader inhabit and personalities and feelings of characters very quickly. Years ago, I remember being terribly moved by The English Teacher, which I will re-read again soon. He is a treasure.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Swami and Friends
*by C***D on June 5, 2014*

This was the stuff I was looking for: The English Teacher contains a thinly veiled autobiographical account of the death of Narayan's wife. It was very interesting to learn about Hindu death and cremation services. The account of how he used a medium to get in touch with her spirit, who was constantly watching over him and their child, was riveting.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Four Stars
*by C***W on August 10, 2015*

An excellent selection of four modern classics by one of India's most influential writers.

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