Selected short stories

Author(s)

• Tagore, Rabindranath
• Radice, William

Bibliographic Information

Selected short stories

Rabindranath Tagore ; translated with an introduction by William Radice

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin Books, 1991

Other Title

Short stories

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-304)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This account of Tagore's work includes an introduction, selected essays and a glossary and is intended to form a companion volume to his collection of "Selected Poems". In this particular volume Tagore reaches beyond documentary realism towards his own visions, which provide a vivid picture of Bengali life. Rabrindranath Tagore was a poet, musician and painter and as a grandmaster of Bengali culture concentrated on creating a new form of literature - the short story, while providing India with one of it's more well-known Romantic Poets. The author won the 1913 Nobel Prize.

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Details

• NCID: BA31514651
• ISBN:
  • 0140184252
• LCCN: 91221988
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ben
• Place of Publication: London, England ; New York, NY, USA
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 324 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