{"product_id":"32144-the-rupa-book-of-snappy-surprises","title":"The Rupa Book of Snappy Surprises","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Rudyard Kipling\u003cbr\u003eEminent Contributors\/\u003cbr\u003eTranslator(s)\/ Editors(s): Ruskin Bond\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Rupa\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2011\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 172\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8129110709\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the ages, story-telling has been a challenge and passion for writers across the world. Keeping a reader's attention and interest alive is no easy task. But the toughest of all, is to tell a story that is both engaging and gratifying few words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuskin Bond presents this anthology of 'super short' stories that qualify the doubly difficult criteria of being entertaining as well as crisp. In an amalgamation of sorts, here are tales that combine thrill with social comment, humour with horror, temperament with the supernatural, and wit with tragedy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wide variety of simple stories, each with its own distinct aura of sentiment, terror, the bizarre, or the unexpected, meant to keep you excited till the last word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Rupa Book of Snappy Surprises includes crazy sequences of events, halarious and insidious 'perfect' crimes, and stunning revelations. There is music that kills; a stuffed bird that flies; a rabbi who is tortured by hope; a debtor who remembers to pay even after death; and a man who dupes none other but himself! Symbolically potent, and wilfully shocking, this is a collection of addictive stories from masters like Ambrose Bierce, Saki, Lord Halifax, Rudyard Kipling, and Ruskin Bond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuskin Bond, one of India's best-loved and most prolific writers, has been writing novels, poetry, essays and short stories for almost half a century now. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApart from this, over the years he has expertly compiled and edited a number of anthologies. For his outstanding literary conttibution he was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957, the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 (for English writing in India) and the Padma Shri in 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMASTER OF THE MACABRE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Boarded Window\u003cbr\u003eOne Summer Night\u003cbr\u003eStaley Fleming's Hallucination\u003cbr\u003eThe Stranger Four stories by Ambrose Beirce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PERFECT CRIME\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeath in the Kitchen\u003cbr\u003eH2 etc.\u003cbr\u003eCoroner's Inquest\u003cbr\u003eA Worm's Turning\u003cbr\u003eThe Two Horns\u003cbr\u003e'Yoked with an Unbeliever'\u003cbr\u003eDusk\u003cbr\u003eThe Amorous Ghost\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Who Came Back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGHOSTS AND GHOULS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire\u003cbr\u003eNight of the Millennium\u003cbr\u003e'I Will Pay You All To-morrow'\u003cbr\u003eThe Bordeaus Diligence\u003cbr\u003eThe Doctor's Ghost\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLASSIC SHORTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Eyes Have It\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire\u003cbr\u003eThe Four-Fingered Hand\u003cbr\u003eThe Third Performance\u003cbr\u003eTorture by Hope\u003cbr\u003eThe Statement of Randolph Carter\u003cbr\u003eThe Interlopers\u003cbr\u003eThe Shifting Growth\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Muhammad Din\u003cbr\u003eHis First Flight\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Rudyard Kipling \/ Rupa \/ Paperback","offer_id":40776635285673,"sku":"32144","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/32144_d7999e9f-4803-478c-b93b-161dc489a328.jpg?v=1625501480","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/32144-the-rupa-book-of-snappy-surprises","provider":"The India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}