Omnibus I - Softcover

Rabindranath Tagore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8129101750 ISBN 13: 9788129101754

Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd., 2004

Synopsis

The Rabindranath Tagore Omnibus I brings together six of Tagore's acclaimed works. It includes Gitanjali, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913, a selection of 103 poems that took the world by storm, Post Office, a symbolic play rich in allegory, both simple and sophisticated, considered a masterpiece in worlditerature, Creative Unity (1922), hailed as the finest of Tagore's essays in English, revealing some of his fundamental tenets on art, aesthetics,ife and religion, His Hungry Stones and Other Stories, a collection of some of Tagore's best-loved short stories, Gora, aandmark in the history of the Bengali novel, covering the broad canvas of the social, cultural, religious and politicalife of the nineteenth century urban middle-class in Bengal and My Boyhood Days, Tagore's poignant memoir of his childhood days.

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About the Author

One of India's most cherished figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1914) was a novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, painter, educationist and thinker, the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. He modernised Bengali literature, moving it away from its rigid classical form and strict linguistic structure. Known for works such as Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World, ) his novels, short stories and verse are considered part of the greatest of world literature, famous for their exploration of the political and the personal. He also wrote the national anthem of India, Jana Gana Mana and of Bangladesh, Amar Shonar Bangla.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8129101750
• ISBN 13: 9788129101754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1016