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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Swami and Friends Information
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 Swami and Friends is the first of a trilogy of novels written by R. K. Narayan, a celebrated English language novelist from India. The novel, which is also Narayan's first, is set in pre-independence days in India, in a fictional town called Malgudi.... 
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 New Criterion Mr. Empath.(Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher)(Mr. Sampath: the Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma)(Book review)
10/01/2006: 2,157 words, approx. 7 pages R. K. Narayan Swami & Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher. Everyman's Library, 668 pages, $25 R. K. Narayan Mr. Sampath--The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma. Everyman's Library, 616 pages, $25 ... summary from source:
The Washington Post Bargain-Hunting `Swami' Makes Splash
09/26/1990: 1,049 words, approx. 4 pages When a sports bettor in this town has reached the peak of his profession, he may choose to sit by his swimming pool with a cellular phone in hand, gathering information, comparing point spreads, moving money. But most football bettors in this town have...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Graham Greene
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[Graham Greene was directly responsible for the publication of Narayan's first novel, Swami and Friends. Narayan had mailed the manuscript to a friend in England who had approached several publishers. When they all promptly rejected the book Narayan, bitterly discouraged, instructed his friend not to mail the manuscript back to India, but rather to tie a stone to it and throw it into the Thames. Instead, Narayan's friend brought the manuscript to Greene, who was so impressed with the novel tha...
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