London: Macmillan and Co., 1948. — 153 p. Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. The name Kabir comes from Arabic al-Kabīr which means "The Great" – the 37th name of God in Islam. Kabir's legacy is today carried forward by the Kabir panth ("Path of Kabir"), a religious community that recognises him as its founder...
Penguin, 2011. — 168 p. — ISBN: 9780143414032. Radha Chakravarty (Translator) Rabindranath Tagore reinvented the Bengali novel with Farewell Song, blurring the lines between prose and poetry and creating an effervescent blend of romance and satire. Through Amit and Labanya and a brilliantly etched social milieu, the novel addresses contemporary debates about ‘good’ and ‘bad’...
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1948. — 277 p. Fireflies were proverbs, aphorisms and maxims originated in China and Japan and were often written on pieces of silk. Tagore visited Japan and collected them in his notebooks. Each firefly, rarely more than a sentence long, represents a luminous thought on love, life, beauty or God. Each page of this book contains a decorative design...
Penguin Modern Classics, 2009. — 544 p. — ISBN: 9788184757286. Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore's most ambitious work Gora unfolds against the vast, dynamic backdrop of Bengal under British rule, a divided society struggling to envisage an emerging nation. It is an epic saga of India's nationalist awakening, viewed through the eyes of one young man, an orthodox...
Penguin Modern Classics, 2008. — 152 p. — ISBN: 9788184750959. Aparna Chaudhuri (Translator) This is the first-ever complete translation of Tagore's grand fantasy. Tagore planned a story that had no end, and to keep the tales spinning he employed the help of 'Shey' (He), a teller of tall tales. Shey's world contains bizarre characters, grotesque creatures and mythological...
Bloodaxe Books, 2011. — 652 p. — ISBN: 9781780370187. Ketaki Kushari Dyson (Translation) Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is India's greatest modern poet and the most brilliant creative genius produced by the Indian Renaissance. As well as poetry, he wrote songs, stories and novels, plays, essays, memoirs and travelogues. He was both a restless innovator and a superb craftsman,...
Penguin, 2014. — 400 p. — ISBN: 9789351186366. Rosinka Chaudhuri (Translator) As a young man, Rabindranath Tagore wrote a series of letters to his niece during what he described as the most productive period of his life. By turns contemplative and playful, gentle and impassioned, Tagore’s letters abound in incredible insights—from sharply comical portrayals of English sahibs to...
Rupa, 2002. — 143 p. — ISBN: 9780141957227. Rabindra Rachanavali (Editor) Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters. These have offered us problems and claimed their solutions from us, the penalty of non-fulfilment being death or degradation.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. — 143 p. Tagore argued that nationalism was a manifestation of Western capitalism and mechanization, contradicting Indian spiritual ideals and contrasting with India's goals. He emphasized the importance of Indian society as a natural regulation of human relationships, fostering cooperation and ideals of life.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1918. — 187 p. Written immediately after his visit to the US in 1923, Tagore's creative stimulation behind this play was his response to the increasingly materialistic society that he had experienced first-hand in the States. He thus created an imaginary land Yakshapuri, a city full of wealth and riches where human beings are reduced to machines as...
Penguin Classics, 2005. — 208 p. — ISBN: 9780140449884. William Radice (Editor) The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the world, the eternal and transient,...
Penguin, 2005. — 352 p. — ISBN: 9780140449839. William Radice (Translator) Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 189s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and...
General Press, 2018. — 124 p. — ISBN: 9789387669307. "This collection contains some of the best stories of Tagore who put India on the literary map of the world. Translated from Bengali to English, these stories depict the human condition in its many forms: innocence and childhood, love and loss, the city and the village, the natural and the supernatural. Prominent among the...
Translated from Bengali to English by the author. — New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. — 59 p. Collected here are three hundred twenty short poems by Rabindranath Tagore. They were written in Bengali before being translated into English by Tagore. These poems are beautiful, thought provoking, and somewhat reminiscent of Haiku. Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing...
Harper Perennial, 2017. — 312 p. — ISBN: 9789352773183. Arunava Sinha (Translator) Noukadubi by Rabindranath Tagore is a popular novel of Rabindranath Tagore. The novel is one of the most popular writings of Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore is Bengali Writer, poet, Song Compser and Nobel owner for literature. He born 7 May 1861 in Kolkata, India and Died 7 August 1941.He got Novel...
Penguin, 2005. — 213 p. — ISBN: 9780140449860. Surendranath Tagore (Translator), William Radice (Preface), Anita Desai (Introduction) Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader,...
Penguin Books Ltd, 2010. — 232 p. — ISBN: 9780143330141. Poet, novelist, painter, musician and Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore was one of modern India ’s greatest literary figures. This collection brings together some of his best works—poems, short stories and plays in one volume. Be it the wit, magic and lyricism of his poetry or the vividly etched social milieu of his...
Copper Canyon Press, 2003. — 90 p. — ISBN: 9781556591969. Chase Twichell (Translation) Tagore's supressed book now available in an English-Bengali edition. For the first time in English, here is the sequence of poems Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) worked on his entire life—the erotic and emotionally powerful dialogue about Lord Krishna and his young lover Radha....
London:George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1931. — 245 p. The Religion of Man is a 1931 compilation of lectures by Rabindranath Tagore, edited by him and drawn largely from his Hibbert Lectures given at Oxford University in May 1930. A Brahmo playwright and poet of global renown, Tagore deals with largely universal themes of God, divine experience, illumination, and spirituality. A brief...
Penguin, 2005. — 994 p. — ISBN: 9788184751123. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore was India’s leading litterateur of the early twentieth century. Tagore was one of the country’s pioneering novelists, keen to experiment with form and bold in his choice of subjects. His novels are remembered for their innovative narrative structures, profound...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1945. — 97 p. The Post Office (Bengali: Dak Ghar) is a 1912 play by Rabindranath Tagore. It concerns Amal, a child confined to his adoptive uncle's home by an incurable disease. W. Andrew Robinson and Krishna Dutta note that the play "continues to occupy a special place in Tagore's reputation, both within Bengal and in the wider world. It was written...
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