The World of Premchand
Subtitle: Selected Short Stories
Contributors: David Rubin (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 23, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780195657722
First sentence: The pride the peasant takes in seeing his field flourishing is like the soldier's in his red turban, the coquette's in her jewels or the doctor's in the patients seated before him.