The Dark Room

by R.K. Narayan

Book Overview

"There are writers--Tolstoy and Henry James to name two--whom we hold in awe, writers--Turgenev and Chekhov--for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect--Conrad for example--but who hold us at a long arm's length with their 'courtly foreign grace.' Narayan (whom I don't hesitate to name in such a context) more than any of them wakes in me a spring of gratitude, for he has offered me a second home. Without him I could never...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226568377
• ISBN13: 9780226568379
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"