Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 184
ISBN/UPC (if available): 812910752X
Description
From travel, suspense, crime, haunted houses, wicked and adventures stories from different periods and places all over the world, Ruskin bond, our anthologiser par excellence, now shifts his focus. In a world rent apart with excitement-good and bad-this anthology brings together stories to restore one’s faith in the goodness of human nature.
Stories that symbolize the healing, therapeutic and rejuvenating effect that literature can have. These are stories that you return to, again and again, over the years. They will always bring you something-warmth, hope, and the joie de vivre so important in our everyday lives.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
My Date with Graybeard
ROBIN COLLINS
The Big Drum
WILLIAM GERHARDI
That Which Remained
BARTIMEUS
The Last Leaf
O HENRY
My Friend, the Mouse
ROBERT FONTAINE
Primula
GEOFFREY MOSS
The Beggar
ANTON CHEKHOV
Without a Title
ANTON CHEKHOV
Orange Blossoms (A Story from Sri Lanka)
J A R GRENIER
The Tree Lover
RUSKIN BOND
A Cricket Match of Long Ago
EDMUND BLUNDEN
The Little Ghost
HUGH WALPOLE
The Tale of a Child
JOSEF BARD
Prisoner of the Sand
ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY
A Journey with Dickens
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN