Book description
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. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Nobel
laureate for literature (1913), was one of modern India's greatest poets
and writers
