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2. Malgudi Days (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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   7813056. Preceded by. The Dark Room. Followed by. The English Teacher. Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [ 1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [ 2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [ 3] located ...

3. Aadujeevitham - Wikipedia

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   Manjaveyil Maranangal (Malayalam) Aadujeevitham is a 2008 Malayalam -language novel by Indian author Benyamin. It is about an abused Malayali migrant worker employed in Saudi Arabia as a goatherd against his will. [ 4][ 5] The novel is based on real-life events and was a best seller in Kerala. [ 6] According to media, Benyamin became an ...

4. The Remains of the Day - Wikipedia

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   The Unconsoled. The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize -winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record of service at Darlington Hall, a fictitious stately home near Oxford, England. In 1956, he takes a road trip to visit a former colleague, and reminisces about events at ...

5. The English Patient - Wikipedia

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   Villa San Girolamo in Fiesole (Florence). The novel's historical backdrop is the North African and Italian Campaigns of the Second World War.The story is told out of sequence, moving back and forth between the severely burned "English" patient's memories from before his accident and current events at the bomb-damaged Villa San Girolamo (in Fiesole), an Italian monastery, where he is being ...

6. English novel - Wikipedia

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   Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England.. The English novel is an important part of English literature.This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland (or any part of Ireland before 1922).

7. The Day of the Jackal - Wikipedia

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   The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a political thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France. [ 1]

8. Veronika Decides to Die - Wikipedia

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   ISBN. 0-06-095577-5. OCLC. 47204184. Veronika Decides to Die ( Portuguese: Veronika Decide Morrer) [ 2] is a novel by Paulo Coelho. [ 3] It tells the story of Veronika, a 24-year-old Slovenian who appears to have everything in life going for her, but who decides to kill herself. This book is partly based on Coelho's experience in various mental ...

9. Perfume (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (German: Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders [das paʁˈfœ̃ː diː ɡəˈʃɪçtə ˈʔaɪnəs ˈmœʁdɐs] ⓘ) is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meanings that scents may have.