Selected Short Stories

Rabindranath Tagore's stories attarctively rebound in half-leather

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Printing Details

Reprint. Hardback, rebound in half leather with four raised bands and gilt titling to the spine. 21 × 13.5cm, 322pp [2].

Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore 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.

Condition

This copy is in very good condition, with some light wear to the binding and a little wrinkling to the first few pages but remaining in strong readable condition.