num_pages: 322
description: Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture, and in the 1890s he concentrated on creating a new form, the short story. Many of his best stories were written during a period of relative isolation spent managing his family's estates in the riverlands of Bengal and they have been acclaimed as vivid portraits of Bengali life and landscapes, brilliantly polemical 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.This edition, which has been extensively revised, includes a full introduction, selected letters and a glossary, and forms a companion volume to Tagore's Selected Poems, also edited and translated by William Radice.
language: English
title: Selected Short Stories
titlecomplete: Selected Short Stories
genres: Fiction, Indian Literature, Asia, Short Stories, Poetry, India, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, 19th Century
ratings_count: 7066
publisher: Penguin Books India