R.K. Narayan: Short Stories R. K. Narayan

Novels

• Swami and Friends (1935, Hamish Hamilton)
• The Bachelor of Arts (1937, Thomas Nelson)
• The Dark Room (1938, Eyre)
• The English Teacher (1945, Eyre)
• Mr. Sampath (1948, Eyre)
• The Financial Expert (1952, Methuen)
• Waiting for the Mahatma (1955, Methuen)
• The Guide (1958, Methuen)
• The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961, Viking)
• The Vendor of Sweets (1967, The Bodley Head)
• The Painter of Signs (1977, Heinemann)
• A Tiger for Malgudi (1983, Heinemann)
• Talkative Man (1986, Heinemann)
• The World of Nagaraj (1990, Heinemann)
• Grandmother's Tale (1992, Indian Thought Publications)

Non-fiction

• Next Sunday (1960, Indian Thought Publications)
• My Dateless Diary (1960, Indian Thought Publications)
• My Days (1973, Viking)
• Reluctant Guru (1974, Orient Paperbacks)
• The Emerald Route (1980, Indian Thought Publications)
• A Writer's Nightmare (1988, Penguin Books)
• A Story-Teller's World (1989, Penguin Books)
• The Writerly Life (2001, Penguin Books India)
• Mysore (1944, second edition, Indian Thought Publications)

Mythology

• Gods, Demons and Others (1964, Viking)
• The Ramayana (1972, Chatto & Windus)
• The Mahabharata (1978, Heinemann)

Short story collections

• Malgudi Days (1942, Indian Thought Publications)
• An Astrologer's Day and Other Stories (1947, Indian Thought Publications)
• Lawley Road and Other Stories (1956, Indian Thought Publications)
• A Horse and Two Goats (1970)
• Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories (1985)
• The Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories (1994, Viking)

Adaptations

Narayan's book The Guide was adapted into the 1965 Hindi film Guide, directed by Vijay Anand. An English-language version was also released. Narayan was not happy with the way the film was made and its deviation from the book; he wrote a column in Life magazine, "The Misguided Guide," criticising the film.[7] The book was also adapted to a Broadway play by Harvey Breit and Patricia Rinehart, and was staged at Hudson Theatre in 1968 with Zia Mohyeddin playing the lead role and a music score by Ravi Shankar.[124]

Mr. Sampath was made into a 1952 Hindi film of the same name with Padmini and Motilal and produced by Gemini Studios.[125] Another novel, The Financial Expert, was made into the Kannada film Banker Margayya (1983).[126] Swami and Friends, The Vendor of Sweets and some of Narayan's short stories were adapted by actor-director Shankar Nag into the television series Malgudi Days that started in 1986. Narayan was happy with the adaptations and complimented the producers for sticking to the storyline in the books.[127]