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This week, my (free) email subscription to the Story of the Week from the Library of America, brought me ‘The Power of Touch’ by Helen Keller. It was first published in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (Feb 1908) and revised for The World I Lived In (1908), and is now available in Helen Keller: Autobiographies & Other Writings, edited by Keller’s biographer Kim E Neilson and comprising The Story of My Life;The World I Live In; and essays, speeches, letters, and journals. (See here.)
When I was a girl, it was usual for my birthday and Christmas presents to include an ‘annual’ of some sort. Predating the Disneyfication of children’s literature, sometimes these annuals were marketed with a title that linked to cartoons and children’s magazines, as in the Daily Express Rupert annual from 1955, still being produced as late as 1986, if my search at Abebooks is anything to go by. Occasionally they produced Commonwealth editions, such as The Children’s Annual for New Zealand Boys and Girls.
More often these annuals were gendered and had titles like Every Boys’ Annual, which featured a lad braving the elements in a macintosh and sou’wester while The School Friend Annual featured cheery girls
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Time for another novella for Novellas in November, hosted by Cathy of 746 Books and Rebecca of Bookish Beck. This is Week 3 (starting Monday 13 November) and the theme is Broadening My Horizons:
- Pick your top novellas in translation and think about new genres or authors you’ve been introduced to through novellas.
Well, I have broadened my horizons, but the remarkable novella I’ve just read isn’t in translation. Swami and Friends (1935) was written in English by the great Indian author R K Narayan. There are 44 reviews of books by Indian and Anglo-Indian authors on this blog, but prior to this I had never read anything by an Indian author written before Indian independence in 1947.
On his Wikipedia page, we learn that
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (1906 – 2001), better known as R. K. Narayan, was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.
Narayan’s mentor and friend Graham Greene was instrumental in getting publishers for Narayan’s first four books including the semi-autobiographical trilogy of Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher. The ficti