Swami & Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room & The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan [HARDCOVER COLLECTOR'S EDITION] 2006 • Everyman's Library

Four Novel by R.K. Narayan: Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room & The English Teacher HARDCOVER COLLECTOR'S EDITION [1992] EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY Deluxe edition hardcover w/ dust jacket.  Features sewn-in silken bookmark and gilded red cloth boards.  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Dust jacket is like new; now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.   Book is in beautiful shape.  Pristine red cloth boards.  Reads flawlessly.  Small gift inscription on front endpaper. 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 fo