Selected short stories
Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and in these stories he can be seen reaching beyond mere documentary realism towards his own profoundl…
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- Full title :Selected short stories / Rabindranath Tagore ; translated with an introduction by William Radice.
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Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and in these stories he can be seen reaching beyond mere documentary realism towards his own profoundly original vision.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
Notes
Originally published: 1991.
The Physical Object
- Description:xviii, 322 pages : : 1 map ; : 20 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0140449833, 9780140449839
- oclc:ocm60559884
- LC Classification:PK1722.A2
- Dewey Decimal:891.4435
Table of Contents
The living and the dead -- The postmaster -- Profit and loss -- Housewife -- Little master's return -- The divide -- Taraprasanna's fame -- Wealth surrendered -- Skeleton -- A single night -- Fool's gold -- Holiday -- Kabuliwallah -- The editor -- Punishment -- A problem solved -- Exercise-book -- Forbidden entry -- In the middle of the night -- Unwanted -- Elder sister -- Fury appeased -- Thakurda -- Guest -- Wishes granted -- False hope -- Son-sacrifice -- The hungry stones -- Thoughtlessness -- The gift of sight -- Appendix A: Passing time in the rain -- Appendix B: Letters.
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