Selected Short Stories

by Tagore, Rabindranath; Chaudhuri, Sukanta; Ghosh, Sankha; Ghosh, Tapobrata

• ISBN13: 9780195658293
• ISBN10: 0195658299
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 poetry, non-fiction prose, and fiction. The translations edited by well-known scholar and translator Sukanta Chaudhuri are authoritative and readable.

Author Biography

Sukanta Chaudhuri is Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(31)
The Ghat's Story	31	(9)
Ramkanai's Folly	40	(5)
The Exercise-Book	45	(6)
Inheritance	51	(8)
A Single Night	59	(6)
A Fanciful Story	65	(9)
The Living and the Dead	74	(12)
The Golden Deer	86	(11)
Kabuliwala	97	(7)
Subha	104	(6)
Punishment	110	(11)
Trespass	121	(5)
Grandfather	126	(9)
Hungry Stone	135	(12)
The Visitor	147	(15)
The Royal Mark	162	(11)
Folly	173	(4)
The Wedding Garland	177	(11)
The Haldar Family	188	(17)
The Wife's Letter	205	(14)
Woman Unknown	219	(12)
House Number One	231	(13)
The Unapproved Story	244	(11)
Balai	255	(6)
The Laboratory	261	(38)
Appendix: The Story of a Mussalmani	299	(5)
Notes	304