R.K. Narayan?s immense literary oeuvre comprises novels, novellas, short stories, travelogues, and film scripts. This volume offers detailed critical analyses of Narayan?s fifteen novels and novellas. Through the lens of the three gunas in Indian philosophy, Ranga Rao traces the novelist?s shift from sattvic comedies to rajasic and tamasic ones. He embellishes his critique with rich annotations, offering numerous facts and filiations, drawn from critics as well as friends and relatives of Narayan. This volume stands out as a definitive study of one of the most prominent authors of early Indian literature in English. Ranga Rao is a visiting faculty member at the Department of English, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Puttaparthi, India.