Selected Stories of Tagore

by Rabindranath Tagore, Digital Fire (Editor)

Considered as one of the most sensitive and creative writers of his times, Rabindranath Tagore elevated the genre of short stories to an art-form. Tagore's stories continue to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world. Translated from Bengali to English, these stories depict the human condition in its many forms.Tagore’s stories lead to profound insights of the human mind. They have a capacity to touch your core and leave you thinking deeply about human values. Prominent among the stories are the famous 'The Cabuliwallah', which has also been adapted as a movie. ABOUT THE Tagore (1861-1941)a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A cultural icon of Bengal and India, he became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

145 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 11, 2018

About the author

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.

The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....

Reviews

[Carolyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really enjoyable set of short stories from India which capture the climate, social mores and landscape. A pleasure to read.

[Ankita Gupta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tagore as usual his best

[Cameron Krogh Stone · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading Tagore’s short tales, one gets the feeling of being whisked away on an ethereal cloud above Bengal, floating above all life and peering down into the depths of human consciousness in all its mysterious, romantic irrationality.
While his moralities sometimes seem questionable, his wisdom and poetry permeates the experience. His endings are often ironic, ambiguous and/or bittersweet in ways that leave one truly pondering what one just read; digesting… If he can manage that every 3- to 12-page story in a medium print pocket book, I’d say he’s truly worth a read for just about anyone, particularly people curious about late 19th-/early 20th century Bengal and its greatest poet.