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