The colonial encounter : a reading of six novels / M.M. Mahood

London : Collings, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 211 pp.; 23 cm. Contents; Idols of the tribe: Conrad's Heart of darkness.--Idols of the den: Achebe's Arrow of God.--The birth of Krishna: Forster's A passage to India.--The marriage of Krishna: Narayan's The man-eater of Malgudi.--The possessed: Greene's The comedians.--The dispossessed: Naipaul's The mimic men.--Novelists of the colonial experience. Subjects; Achebe, Chinua. Arrow of God. Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan) 1879-1970 Passage to India. Greene, Graham 1904- Comedians. Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) 1932-. Mimic mens. Narayan, R. K. 1906-. Man-eater of Malgudi. Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924. Heart of darkness.