Selected Short Stories (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2005
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Paperback. 'Like Gandhi and Nehru, Tagore devised a toolkit with which to fashion the modern Indian self' Sunil Khilnani, IndependentPoet, 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. This edition "reprinted with a new chronology, further reading, and corrections"--Copyright page. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- Selected Short Stories (Paperback)
- Author
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd, London
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0140449833
- ISBN 13
- 9780140449839
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- 1st Edition
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.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance. A poet, songwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer, and novelist, Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1931.
William Radice is a poet, scholar, and translator of Bengali, who has written or edited nearly thirty books. He has translated Tagore’s short stories and his novel The Home and the World for Penguin Classics.
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