Complex sentence: The novel Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay is a classic bildungsroman in Bengali literature, and first appeared as a serial in a periodical in 1928, and was later published as a book in 1929.
Split into simpler sentences: The novel Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay is a classic bildungsroman in Bengali literature. It first appeared as a serial in a periodical in 1928, and was later published as a book in 1929.