Bond Collection for Adults

by Ruskin Bond

Load up your Kindle this festive season with this Ruskin Bond collection.

Titles in the bundle are:
Falling in Love Again: Stories of Love and Romance
No Man is an Island: Stories of Friendship and Bonding
The Very Best of Ruskin Bond
Ghost Stories from the Raj

872 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 23, 2015

About the author

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Reviews

[Papri]

If you are a Ruskin Bond fan, then this book is definitely for you. However, it is actually a compilation of four of his full fledged books, so some of the stories are repeated. However, there are also a lot of fresh pieces to delve into. Many of the stories, are actually not stories but character sketches or descriptions of places and lives of the common people, sprinkled with the author's own experiences, in those situations. Delightful to read and rather like comfort food on a cold, wintry night. The descriptions are replete with sweet warmth and affectionate indulgence towards the subjects of the stories, be they the Himalayan foothills or the lives of the simple, hardworking folk ,who make this corner of the world their home.

However, one of the books included in this collection is the book of ghost stories from the Raj, which contains stories by other authors also and most of them are pretty interesting.In fact , some of them are quite vintage and memorable.

All in all, a good collection. However, in my opinion, this book is not a one time read but rather a box of dry candies, you go back to cheer yourself up, from time to time. Even though I have read it as an ebook, I wish I had the good old fashioned hard paperback version, so that I could savour it in small doses.

[Mani · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little more 'mature' than other Ruskin Bond collections, with slightly darker themes, the stories are still vintage Bond. And none less interesting, funny or inspiring. He's among my favorite Indian writers and for good reason. I think you'll agree after reading this book.