Title Statements
- Full title :Selected short stories / Rabindranath Tagore ; translated with an introduction by William Radice.
Summary
Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this collection recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officaldom and dehumanizing poverty.-http://www.booksinprint.com.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
Notes
Originally published: London, England; New York : Penguin Books, ©2005.
Originally published: 1991.
Translated from the Bengali.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 audio disc ; : 4 3/4 in.
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:ocn228033450
- Dewey Decimal:891.4435 T
Table of Contents
Chronology -- Living and the dead -- Postmaster -- Profit and loss -- Housewife -- Little master's return -- Divide -- Taraprasanna's fame -- Wealth surrendered -- Skeleton -- Single night -- Fool's gold -- Holiday -- Kabuliwallah -- Editor -- Punishment -- Problem solved -- Exercise-book -- Forbidden entry -- In the middle of the night -- Unwanted -- Elder sister -- Fury appeased -- Ṭhākurdā -- Guest -- Wishes granted -- False hope -- Son-sacrifice -- Hungry stones -- Thoughtlessness -- Gift of sight -- Appendixes: 'Passing time in the rain'; Letters -- Glossary -- Tagore's family tree.
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