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The Guide by R. K. Narayan

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Author Biography

Name: R. K. Narayan
Birth Date: October 10, 1906
Place of Birth: Madras, India
Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of R. K. Narayan
692 words, approx. 2.3 pages
R. K. Narayan (born 1906) is one of the best-known of the Indo-English writers. He created the imaginary town of Malgudi, where realistic characters in a typically Indian setting lived amid unpredictable events. Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanswami, who p...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Guide Information
1,191 words, approx. 4 pages
The Guide is a 1958 novel written in English by the Indian author R. K. Narayan. It is one of the author's most critically acclaimed novels. Like most of his works the novel is based in Malgudi, the fictional town in South India. The novel describes the...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Guide to the Guides
12/11/1988: 2,194 words, approx. 7 pages
The American traveler is changing, and the publishers of the major national and international travel guidebook series are taking note of it. Three of the largest all-purpose guides-Fodor, Fielding and Frommer-all have new looks to them for the 1989 editions, which are just now...
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The Washington Post
A Guide To the Guides
12/03/1989: 2,644 words, approx. 9 pages
Guidebook publishers are busy these days trying to keep up with the traveling habits of the American public. Eager to see the world in all its diversity, Americans are trekking into the most remote regions of every continent, looking for romance in a...
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AP Features
Government tells ADHD drug makers to warn patients of cardiovascular and mental risks
2/21/2007: 273 words, approx. 1 pages
Drugs prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder will include guides to alert patients and parents of the risks of mental and heart problems, including sudden death.The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that it directed the manufacturers of Ritalin, Adderall, Strattera and all other...
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AP-Travel Online
Michelin Guide Ranks San Francisco
10/9/2006: 323 words, approx. 1 pages
A wine country restaurant in Napa Valley was the only eatery to get three stars from the first Michelin guide to restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area. The French Laundry restaurant run by chef Thomas Keller in Yountville got...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Chitra Sankaran
9,704 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Sankaran analyzes Narayan's fusing of traditional Indian myth and the English novel form, focusing on The Guide.
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Critical Essay by Balbir Singh
3,705 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Singh analyzes the place of art and immortality in Narayan's The Guide.


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The Guide by R. K. Narayan

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