Selected Stories of Rabindranath Tagore

By Rabindranath Tagore

1917

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This collection contains some of the best stories of Tagore who put India on the literary map of the world. Translated from Bengali to English, these stories depict the human condition in its many innocence and childhood, love and loss, the city and the village, the natural and the supernatural. Prominent among the stories are the famous The Cabuliwallah, which has also been adapted as a movie. The book also gives an insight into the socio-economic conditions prevalent in Colonial Bengal. **************************************** About Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet and novelist. Other works by Tagore available in English include The Crescent Moon, Glimpses of Bengal, Creative Unity, The Lover Of God, The Cycle of Spring, My Boyhood Days and The Gardener. Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 in Calcutta. He is credited with bringing Bengali literature into the modern era, evolving a new style free of classical confines. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The national anthems of both, India and Bangladesh, are his compositions. Tagore was not only a writer, but also composed 2,230 songs, and wrote plays. He took up painting and drawing when he was sixty, and had many successful exhibitions. He was married to Mrinalini Devi, and they had five children. He died in Calcutta, aged 80, in 1941.

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Rabindranath Tagore

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West." Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla. The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites: http://www.tagoreweb.in/ http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....