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7 best short stories by Rabindranath Tagore - cover

7 best short stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore, August Nemo

Publisher: Tacet Books

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Rabindranath Tagore was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".
This book contains:

- The Cabuliwallah.
- The Home-Coming.
- Onde There Was A King.
- The Child's Return.
- Master Mashai.
- Subha.
- The Postmaster.
Available since: 05/16/2020.

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