Download or read book The Man Whose Name Did Not Appear in the Census and Other Stories written by Mulk Raj Anand and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is remarkable for the variety of its inspiration anands picture is real, comprehensive, and subtle, and the shifts in moods, from farce to comedy, from pathos to tragedy, and from the realistic to the poetic, are remarkable

Download or read book Man Whose Name Did Not Appear in the Census and Other Stories written by Mulk Raj Anand and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The volume is remarkable for the variety of its inspiration...' — Manchester Guardian, UK 'Anand's picture is real, comprehensive, and subtle, and the shifts in moods, from farce to comedy, from pathos to tragedy, and from the realistic to the poetic, are remarkable.' — V S Pritchett, British Literary Critic 'Anand is indeed adept in the art of spinning a yarn.' — Punjab Journal of English Studies, Guru Nanak Dev University

Download or read book Things Have a Way of Working Out and Other Stories written by Mulk Raj Anand and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mulk Raj Anand, novelist, short story writer, essayist and art critic, along with Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan, is frequently referred to as ‘founding father’ of Indo-English writing. He began his career by writing for T.S. Eliot’s Criterion and went on to win international fame with his heart-warming portraits of the Indian landscape and its people. Anand’s prolific writing career spanned more than 75 years, during which he was widely identified with the quest for a just, equitable, and forward-looking India. He wrote extensively in areas as diverse as art and sculpture, politics, Indian literature and the history of ideas. He was honoured with Sahitya Akademi Award, the most prestigious Indian award for literary writing in 1972. This volume of short stories is remarkable for the variety of its inspiration. ‘Anand is an excellent raconteur, telling a story with grace and point. He commands an easy urbane style… The stories have the power to charm.’ — Weekend Review ‘Anand’s picture is real, comprehensive, and subtle, and the shifts in moods, from farce to comedy, from pathos to tragedy, and from the realistic to the poetic, are remarkable.’ — V S Pritchett, British Literary Critic 'With great deftness, Anand pictures India... He impresses with his profound knowledge of Indian religion and culture.' — Books Abroad, USA

Download or read book Lajwanti and Other Stories written by Mulk Raj Anand and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lajwanti, Mulk Raj Anand focuses on a woman's predicament and struggle to find an identity for herself. Frustrated by a rigid pattern of social relationships, gender bias, religious bigotry and her own petty human foibles, her abject condition serves as a metaphor for sacrifice and servility which forms the thematic heart of these stories.

Download or read book A Handful of Rice written by Kamala Markandaya and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compulsively readable story of struggle for survival in a large modern city and how it demeans human life. Ravi, son of a peasant, joins in the general exodus to the city, and, floating through the indifferent streets, lands into the underworld of petty criminals. He falls in love with pretty Nalini, and marries her against all odds. She tries to change his way of life, but fate conspires against him...and the story moves to a memorable climax.

Download or read book Yayati written by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Jnanpith and Sahitya Akademi Awards. The story of Yayati is perhaps one of the most intriguing and fascinating episodes of Mahabharata. Yayati was a great scholar and one of the noblest rulers of olden times. He followed the shastras and was devoted to the welfare of his subjects. Even the King of Gods, Indra, held him in high esteem. Married to seductively beautiful Devyani, in love with her maid Sharmishtha, and father of five sons from two women, yet Yayati unabashedly declares, 'My lust for pleasure is unsatisfied...'. His quest for the carnal continued, sparing not even his youngest son, and exchanging his old age for his son's youth...

Download or read book The Tractor and the Corn Goddess and Other Stories written by Mulk Raj Anand and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twentieth Century Indian English Fiction written by M. K. Naik and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Wide-Ranging Study Examines The Emergence And The Peaking Of The Twentieth Century Indian English Fiction, Including Its New Bearings And Fresh Flowering In The Last Two Decades Of The Century. It Offers Both A Survey Of The Trends And Tendencies Of This Genre During This Period And A Critique Of Some Of Its Major Voices. At Once Incisive And Comprehensive, And Laced With Telling Percep-Tions, The Volume Epitomizes Professor M.K. Naik'S Vintage Writing On The Indian English Fiction Of This Period.

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