Selected Short Stories
by Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice
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(2 ratings)352 pages1917Oxford University Press, USAISBN 9780195658293
About this book
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.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 1917
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780195658293
- Language
- en
About Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of "Gitanjali" and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" (The Nobel Foundation), he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature.
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