Malgudi Days (Twentieth-Century Classics)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: January 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780140185430
Subjects: Classic fiction; Modern fiction; Short stories; Malgudi (India : Imaginary pla; India; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Malgudi (India : Imaginary place); General; Fiction / Classics; City and town life; Fiction; Social life and customs
First sentence: Punctually at midday he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment, which consisted of a dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it, a notebook and a bundle of palmyra writing.