Hungry Stones and Other Stories

Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 247
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0333900057

Description

This book is a selection of the best of Tagore’s short stores. These stories display the versatility of the great writer. These stories have a firm narrative thread and are a delight to every reader—serious and not-so.

This book is a selection of the best of Tagore’s short stores. These stories display the versatility of the great writer. Ranging from the fanciful and supernatural in ‘Hungry Stones’, to the delicate, poignance in ‘The Homecoming’. Tagore had a remarkable capacity to empathize with his characters and his characterization shows a great deal of psychological insight.

A master of the short story genre, Tagore can evoke pathos and humor at the same time. His sense of comic gives him—and the reader-an objective view of otherwise sentimental situations.

These stories have a firm narrative thread and are a delight to every reader—serious and not-so.

Contents

The Hungry Stones

The Victory

Once there was a King

The Home-Coming

My Lord, the Baby

The Kingdom of Cards

The Devotee

Vision

The Babus of Nayanjore

Living or Dead?

‘We Crown Thee King’

The Renunciation

Cabuliwallah