ENGLISH

Selected Short Stories

By Rabindranath Tagore , William Radice

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
2005
ISBN
0140449833, 9780140449839
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2355802 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Edition
Revised
Pages
336\0
Time added
2013-10-14 19:48:49

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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