... as a sad novel, Mistry manages, as always, to balance the conflicting forces: that is, the outside world and the inner sphere. Outside is rotten to the core, he confirms over and again, and will corrupt the most decent man, even a man like Gustad Noble. David Townsend, in a review of the novel, notes that "the story's private dimensions are not merely weighed against political circumstance; they ... the secure flat and beyond the city by the sea into the village of the two tailors and the idyllic mountain home of the student. These locales are rendered with the same care Mistry takes wi...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... as a sad novel, Mistry manages, as always, to balance the conflicting forces: that is, the outside world and the inner sphere. Outside is rotten to the core, he confirms over and again, and will corrupt the most decent man, even a man like Gustad Noble. David Townsend, in a review of the novel, notes that "the story's private dimensions are not merely weighed against political circumstance; they ... the secure flat and beyond the city by the sea into the village of the two tailors and the idyllic mountain home of the student. These locales are rendered with the same care Mistry takes wi...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate