Selected short stories

Author(s)

• Tagore, Rabindranath

Bibliographic Information

Selected short stories

Rabindranath Tagore ; translated with an introduction by William Radice

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin Books, 1994

Revised ed

Note

Translated from Bengali

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-302)

Description and Table of Contents

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.

Table of Contents

• The Living and the Dead
• The Postmaster
• Profit and Loss
• Housewife
• Little Master's Return
• The Divide
• Taraprasanna's Fame
• Wealth Surrendered
• Skeleton
• A Single Night
• Fool's Gold
• Holiday
• Kabuliwallah
• The Editor
• Punishment
• A Problem Solved
• Exercise-book
• Forbidden Entry
• In the Middle of the Night
• Unwanted
• Elder Sister
• Fury Appeased
• Thakurda
• Guest
• Widhes Granted
• False Hope
• Son-sacrifice
• The Hungry Stones
• Thoughtlessness
• The Gift of Sight.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA29468303
• ISBN:
  • 0140188541
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ben
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 322 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PK1722.A2
  • DC20 : 891/.4434
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1942 -- Translations intoEnglish
  • LCSH : India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07487461