Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140449833 ISBN 13: 9780140449839

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2005

Synopsis

A Penguin Classic

Poet, novelist, painter, and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India’s supreme Romantic poet, and in these stories he can be seen reaching beyond mere documentary realism towards his own profoundly original vision.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About this title

About the Author:

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance. A poet, songwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer, and novelist, Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1931.

William Radice is a poet, scholar, and translator of Bengali, who has written or edited nearly thirty books. He has translated Tagore’s short stories and his novel The Home and the World for Penguin Classics.

Review:

By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0140449833
• ISBN 13: 9780140449839
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336