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The Complete Short Stories, Vol. 2

By Harish , Asaduddin , Mohammad;Premchand , Munshi;Trivedi

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Year
2017
ISBN
9780143441298, 9789387326514, 9780143441137, 0143441132, 9780143441281, 0143441280, 0143441299, 9780143441304, 0143441302, 9780143442653, 0143442651
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2236530 bytes)
Pages
4 vol. (xlvi, 796; xlvi, 734; xlvi, 782; xlvi, 748
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
biography

Description

Munshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories over the course of a prolific career spanning three decades. His range and diversity were limitless as he tackled themes of romance and satire, gender politics and social inequality, with unmatched skill and compassion. By turns poignant, acerbic, comical and tragic, many of his stories powerfully invoke the countryside-its pastoral simplicity as well as its harsh realities-while others capture the hopes and anxieties that accompany life in a teeming city where the underdog and the exploiter are caught in an age-old conflict. For the first time ever, Penguin Classics brings together Premchand's entire short-fiction oeuvre for the delight of the English-speaking world. Along with M. Asaduddin's illuminating Introduction, this pathbreaking anthologyfeatures several stories not hitherto available either in Hindi or Urdu. Also included are comprehensive...

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