The Cowboys and the English Teacher

Absent. the English Teacher: The English

Absent. the English Teacher: The English Teacher

📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Weaver Press 🌐 English

When Mr George loses his job teaching English at a private secondary school in Bulawayo, his pension payout, after forty years of full-time service, bought him two jam doughnuts and a soft tomato. When he backs his uninsured white Ford Escort into a brand new Mercedes Benz, the out-of-court settleme

The English Teacher

✍ R. K. Narayan 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Indian Thought Publications 🌐 English ⚖ 144 KB 👁 2 views

This novel completes the informal trilogy which began with *Swami and Friends* and *The Bachelor of Arts*. The protagonist, Krishna, is an English teacher at the same college he had attended as a student. Although Krishna has recently married, his wife Susila and their daughter live with his parents

The English Teacher

✍ R. K. Narayan 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Indian Thought Publications 🌐 English ⚖ 142 KB 👁 2 views

This novel completes the informal trilogy which began with *Swami and Friends* and *The Bachelor of Arts*. The protagonist, Krishna, is an English teacher at the same college he had attended as a student. Although Krishna has recently married, his wife Susila and their daughter live with his parents

The English Teacher

✍ Lily King 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Grove/Atlantic, Inc 🌐 English ⚖ 145 KB 👁 2 views

Chosen by the *Chicago Tribune* and *Publishers Weekly* as one of the Best Novels of 2005, Lily King's new novel is a story about an independent woman and her fifteen-year-old son, and the truth she has long concealed from him. Fifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at elite Fayer A

The English Teacher

✍ R. K. Narayan 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books 🌐 en-US ⚖ 135 KB 👁 2 views

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 title character in _The English Teacher_ , Narayan's most autobiographical novel, searches for meaning when the death of his young wife deprives him of

Swami and Friends, the Bachelor of Arts, the Dark Room, the English Teacher

✍ R. K. Narayan 📂 Fiction 📅 2012;2013 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Everyman's Librar 🌐 en-US ⚖ 908 KB 👁 1 views

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) 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 na