The Best of Tagore
$46.28
- Hardcover
840 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2023
Summary
A generous one-volume selection of the best and most important works—poems, songs, stories, essays, novellas, and novels—by the prolific Bard of Bengal, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Rabindranath Tagore published his first volume of poetry at the age of thirteen. He went on to become a towering figure in Bengali and world literature.
Tagore was remarkably productive over his long life; his complete works fill 32 large volumes and include 60 colle…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594156 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841594156 |
| Author: | Rabindranath Tagore, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, William Radice |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 840 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 844g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm x 41mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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I know of no man in my time who has done anything in the English language to equal these lyrics. Even as I read them in these literal English translations, they are exquisite in style and thought – W.B Yeats * W. B. Yeats, introduction to first English edition of Tagore’s Gitanjali (1913). *
About The Author
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. 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” poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Rudrangshu Mukherjee is an Indian historian and author of several major history books. He was formerly the Opinions Editor for The Telegraph newspaper, Kolkata and the Chancellor for Ashoka University, where he also serves as Professor of History.
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