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Reflections: A Selection of Prose and One-act Plays

	Reflections: A Selection Of Prose And One-Act Plays by Board Of Editors
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This textbook has been prepared for the students of the BA Part II English Literature course of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University. The texts in this book have been selected by the university’s Board of Editors. The anthology is divided into two sections—prose and plays.

The first section consists of the following six prose pieces:

‘Mr Know-All’, a short story by Somerset Maugham

‘Playing the English Gentleman’, an extract from M. K. Gandhi’s autobiography

‘The Function of Education’, a short talk given by Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘Principles of Good Writing’, by noted ELT writer L. A. Hill

‘Letter to my Daughter’, a letter from Jawaharlal Nehru to his daughter Indira

‘What is Courage?’, an essay by a much-decorated British general William Slim

The plays section begins with a short introduction to the genre of the one-act play, and contains four different kinds of plays:

A Marriage Proposal, a farce by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov

The Monkey’s Paw, based on a famous horror short story by W. W. Jacobs

Villa for Sale, a witty comedy by French film-maker Sacha Guitry

Day of Atonement, an award-winning piece by British playwright Margaret Wood; a story of guilt, forgiveness and redemption, set in the background of the Holocaust
ISBN-9788125040392

Pages : 156