چکیده (انگلیسی):

Writing about Mulk Raj Anand, Indian writer, and Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, is writing about two of the great
writers who played major roles in developing the novel in their own countries. They succeeded in using novel to deal
with the historical development in their respectivesocieties. This studyexamines two of their best-known works Punjab
Trilogy and Cairo trilogy. This paper investigates the way Anand and Mahfouz accomplish their construction of private
and public lives and how they try to showa large picture of the society through the private lives of their characters. The
significance of the study lies in comparing two great writers of two great nations that underwent similar historical
development in the first half of the 20
th
century.