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| name = A Horse and Two Goats<br />
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| translator = <br />
| image = File:AHorseAndTwoGoats.jpg<br />
| image_caption = First edition<br />
| author = Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Iyer Narayanaswami [alias R K Narayan]<br />
| illustrator = Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman [alias R K Laxman]<br />
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| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = <br />
| series = <br />
| genre = [[Short story|Collection of short stories]]<br />
| publisher = [[The Bodley Head]]<br />
| release_date = 1970<br />
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| media_type = Print<br />
| pages = 160<br />
| isbn = 978-0-370-01438-8<br />
| dewey = 823<br />
| congress = PZ3.N166 Ho3 PR9499.3.N3<br />
| oclc = 152850<br />
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'''''A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories''''' (also published as ''A Horse and Two Goats'') is a collection of short stories by [[R. K. Narayan]], published in 1970 by [[The Bodley Head]].<ref>{{cite book|title=British book news|publisher=[[British Council]]|year=1970|pages=900|oclc=1537139}}</ref> The book is illustrated by [[R. K. Laxman]], Narayan's brother, and includes five stories.<ref>{{cite book|last=May|first=Charles Edward|others=Frank Northen Magill|title=Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Bharati Mukherjee - Mona Simpson|publisher=Salem Press|year=2001|edition=2|series=Critical survey of short fiction|volume=5|pages=1753|isbn=978-0-89356-011-9|oclc=248496155}}</ref> The title story is a sly narrative of a business transaction between an American tourist and an Indian goat-herder as Muni, the result of an inability to communicate with each other.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pritchett|first=Victor Sawdon|title=The Oxford book of short stories|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1981|pages=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordbookofshor00prit/page/395 395]|isbn=978-0-19-214116-3|oclc=8035224|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordbookofshor00prit/page/395}}</ref><br />
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