A look at James Joyce's novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Few modern English readers could enjoy Rudyard Kipling's 'Kim' in the way Kipling intended it to be enjoyed. Kipling was an Imperialist, and 'Kim' embodies attitudes towards British rule in India which these days are unacceptable. But as a work of fiction it does have fine literary qualities, and it and deserves its unique place in the history of English literature.

Krishnan, the central character of R. K. Narayan's 'The English Teacher', undertakes an emotional, intellectual, and spiritual journey during the course of the novel. At the start of the novel he is an English teacher, living and teaching at the same school where he was once a pupil, and at the end we see him resigning his post, beginning work at a nursery school, and learning to communicate psychically with his dead wife.