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Synopsis The Agony and the Glory is an abridged version of samarasve'  Jeevana, a modern Kannada classic in fiction. Written by Vinayak Krishna Gokak, a celebrated Writer and Jnanpith Award Winner, the novel has gone into many editions. Published in 1953, it is an authentic picture of life in the first quarter of the twentieth century in India and is a saga of 3-4 generations. The theme of this novel is Harmony is Life, which is an essential tenet in the author' s metaphysical view of Life. This theme is worked out through the story of three main couple: Narahari and Kusuma, Vishnu and Pramila and Sinu and Sushila. Narahari and Kusuma are an exemplary couple revealing harmony. The existing disharmony and ways and means of introducing harmony are shown on the five main levels of life-the individual, the family, the inter-regional, international and global. The Agony and the Glory of life at all these levels has been brought out in the novel. Samarasve' Jeevana has a magnificent fictional design which encompasses a large mumber of characters and covers a wide range of places and introduces numerous stimulating ideas. The Agony and the Glory, an abridged version presents a broad outline of the novel and brings out the essential vision of life in the original.