The Rupa Book of Wicked Stories
By Ruskin Bond
2005
First Published
3.81
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195
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This compilation by the master anthologist Ruskin Bond contains stories exhibiting the darker side of the human psyche. Twisted adventures, evil characters and dark deeds, from writers such as Ambrose Bierce, Saki and E.H.W. Meyerstein, make this one of Ruskin Bond's finestandmost fascinating, compilations. This compilation by the master anthologist Ruskin Bond contains stories exhibiting the darker side of the human psyche. Twisted adventures, evil characters and dark deeds, from writers such as Ambrose Bierce, Saki and E.H.W. Meyerstein, make this one of Ruskin Bond's finestandmost fascinating, compilations.
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Ruskin Bond
Author · 180 books
Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.
