The Bachelor of Arts

Name: The Bachelor of Arts
Author: R.K. Narayan

by R.K. Narayan

A young man navigates college, romance, and self-doubt in urban India during the British era

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R.K. Narayan

Indian novelist who created the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi as a microcosm of Indian life. His gentle, ironic fiction about ordinary people earned him a place among the finest English-language novelists of the 20th century.

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