Short Stories from Rabindranath Tagore
by Rabindranath Tagore
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The sixteen short stories collected here were written between 1891 and 1917 by the Bengali poet, writer, painter, musician and mystic, Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Throughout these stories, Tagore's main interest is people and the kaleidoscope of human emotions, as men and women struggle with the restrictions and prohibitions of contemporary Hindu society.Tags
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Short stories from Sir Rabindranath Tagore are heartwarming, heart touching, thought-provoking and timeless!
I have re-read the stories many times. This is one of the very rare books that I picked up to re-read in all the years. The language, the narration and the tone of the characters in the stories are absolutely charming.
Irrespective of age and time, these stories can be read even now, in this 21st generation and the most interesting part is they seem relevant!
I have re-read the stories many times. This is one of the very rare books that I picked up to re-read in all the years. The language, the narration and the tone of the characters in the stories are absolutely charming.
Irrespective of age and time, these stories can be read even now, in this 21st generation and the most interesting part is they seem relevant!
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Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta, India. He attended University College, at London for one year before being called back to India by his father in 1880. During the first 51 years of his life, he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India with his many stories, songs, and plays. His short stories were published show more monthly in a friend's magazine and he played the lead role in a few of the public performances of his plays. While returning to England in 1912, he began translating his latest selections of poems, Gitanjali, into English. It was published in September 1912 in a limited edition by the India Society in London. In 1913, he received the Nobel Prize for literature. He was the first non-westerner to receive the honor. In 1915, he was knighted by King George V, but Tagore renounced his knighthood in 1919 following the Amritsar massacre of 400 Indian demonstrators by British troops. He primarily worked in Bengali, but after his success with Gitanjali, he translated many of his other works into English. He wrote over one thousand poems; eight volumes of short stories; almost two dozen plays and play-lets; eight novels; and many books and essays on philosophy, religion, education and social topics. He also composed more than two thousand songs, both the music and lyrics. Two of them became the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. He died on August 7, 1941 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1917
- Original language
- Bengali
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.4434 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Modern Indic languages Bengali Fiction 1845–1895
- LCC
- PK1725 .S559 — Language and Literature Indo-Iranian languages and literatures Indo-Iranian philology and literature Indo-Aryan languages Modern Indo-Aryan languages Particular languages and dialects Bengali
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