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Boyhood Days by Rabindranath Tagore
Category: Popular Science | Series: Hesperus Worldwide
Rabindranath Tagore is famous for the school and university he founded in the Bengal countryside, but he spent much of his early childhood in Calcutta. Seen through the amused eyes of a precocious young boy, Tagore's memoir describes the joint family he grew up in, the city he played in, and the school ...Show more
Gitanjali by RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Moving, heart-felt prose poems by the beloved and much admired Bengali poet and mystic who first achieved international fame (and a Nobel Prize) in 1913 with his translation of these moving poems. Reminiscent of Blake and Gibran, they include many works that are almost biblical in their rhythms, phrasin ...Show more
Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
Category: Fiction
Described by Rabindranath Tagore as 'revelations of my true self', the poems and songs of Gitanjali established the writer's literary talent worldwide. They include eloquent sonnets such as the famous 'Where the mind is without fear', intense explorations of love, faith and nature ('Light, oh where is ...Show more
Monsoon (CD) by Rabindranath Tagore
Category: Audio Books
Based on the tradition of worshipping the Hindus Goddess Kali, this play presents a dramatic conflict that is provided by meaningless superstition of religious rituals and blind allegiance to age old customs on one side, and the eternal truth of humanism and instinctive knowledge of eternal good on the ...Show more
Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore
Category: Culture | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 95
Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance. "Great Ideas": throughout history, some books have chan ...Show more
Selected Poems by Tagore, Rabindranath
Category: Poetry
"It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances... It soars to the sky with delight." First published 1985. This edition in 2005.
Selected Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
Category: Classics
Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom ...Show more
Slipstream by Rabindranath Tagore
Category: Biography
Born in London in 1923, Elizabeth Jane Howard was privately educated at home, moving on to short-lived careers as an actress and model, before writing her first acclaimed novel, The Beautiful Visit, in 1950. She has written 12 highly regarded novels, most recently Falling. Her Cazalet Chronicles have be ...Show more
Songs of Kabir by Rabindranath Tagore (Translation), Andrew Harvey (Introduction)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The poet Kabir, one of the most intriguing and celebrated personalities in the history of Indian mysticism, lived in the fifteenth century. He was a great religious reformer and left behind an exquisite body of poetry of enlightenment that weaves together the philosophies of Sufism, Hinduism, and the Ka ...Show more