Author: Mulk Raj Anand
Publisher: Vision/Orient paperbacks
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 125
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8122204147
Description
This choice selection of his early stories develops the high pitch of excellence which his readers later came to expect from him. With a sensitiveness which is uniquely tender and an imaginative fervour which is contagious, he explores some odd corners of the Indian soul and shows the technical virtuosity of a master of the short story form. All the moods are represented here, from lyricism and satire to the macabre intensity of the Lament on the Death of Master of Arts. Above all his book is inspired by 'the gift of laughter and a sense that the world is mad' which has from the beginning characterized the works of Mulk Raj Anand and through which he has called attention to a great deal of our tinsel glory and mawkish despair. Always, however, Anand's fiction reveals a deep sympathy and valiant humanism, the graces of one of the finest and most gifted writers of our time.
Contents
1. Lament on the Death of a
Master of Arts
2. Appearance and Reality
3. Boots
4. Professor Cheeta
5. The Lady and the Pedlar