Selected Short Stories
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Selected Short Stories
By (Author) Rabindranath Tagore
Introduction by William Radice
Translated by William Radice
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
16th September 2005
1st September 2005
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
891.4435
Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
256g
Description
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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By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Author Bio
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Nobel laureate for literature (1913), was one of modern India's greatest poets and writers
