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Realism and the Twentieth-century Anglophone Novels

The Stuff that Realisms are Made on: R. K. Narayan's The Painter of Signs

Manisha BasuUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Pages 213-228 | Published online: 08 Dec 2017

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