Selected Short Stories

Rabindranath Tagore

Oxford University Press, 2000 - Fiction - 322 pages

This collection of the short stories of Nobel Laureate and celebrated Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore is the first title in the series The Oxford Tagore, a major new project to publish the English translations of a wide variety of Tagore's writings including his poety, non-ficiton prose, and fiction. The translations edited by well-known scholar and translator Sukanta Chaudhuri are authoritative and readable.

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• THE GHATS STORY: 31
• THE EXERCISEBOOK: 45

About the author

Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta, India. He attended University College, at London for one year before being called back to India by his father in 1880. During the first 51 years of his life, he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India with his many stories, songs, and plays. His short stories were published monthly in a friend's magazine and he played the lead role in a few of the public performances of his plays. While returning to England in 1912, he began translating his latest selections of poems, Gitanjali, into English. It was published in September 1912 in a limited edition by the India Society in London. In 1913, he received the Nobel Prize for literature. He was the first non-westerner to receive the honor. In 1915, he was knighted by King George V, but Tagore renounced his knighthood in 1919 following the Amritsar massacre of 400 Indian demonstrators by British troops. He primarily worked in Bengali, but after his success with Gitanjali, he translated many of his other works into English. He wrote over one thousand poems; eight volumes of short stories; almost two dozen plays and play-lets; eight novels; and many books and essays on philosophy, religion, education and social topics. He also composed more than two thousand songs, both the music and lyrics. Two of them became the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. He died on August 7, 1941 at the age of 80.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Selected Short Stories; Oxford India paperbacks; Selections, Rabindranath Tagore; The Oxford Tagore translations; The Oxford Translations of the Works of Rabindranath Tagore; Works, Rabindranath Tagore
• Author: Rabindranath Tagore
• Editors: Sukanta Chaudhuri, Tapobrata Ghosha
• author of text accompanying photos: Tapobrata Ghosha
• Contributor: Tapobrata Ghosha
• Edition: 4, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0195638875, 9780195638875
• Length: 322 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Literary Collections / Asian / General