Selected Writings for Children
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780195658736
Hardcover|9780195658736
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The poet and sage here appears as a writer for children in a number of veins - comic, whimsical, tender, serious. Among the variety of verses to be found here are delicate pieces originally written for an innovative Bengali textbook; delightful nonsense poetry and presentations of a child's desires and fantasies; and narrative and didactic poems as simple as they are sober and unpatronizing. These verses appear alongside a range of other writing: short plays and sketches; short stories; chatty tales where everyday life blends with fantasy and witty philosophizing. The collection is rounded off with a selection from Rabindranath's accounts of his own childhood. Most of theses pieces have never been translated before. Many of them would have been considered untranslatable. The book also contains a wealth of illustrations by Rabindranath himself, his circle and the members of the Santiniketan community. The book offers readers a rich insight into one of the most attractive yet least explored aspects of Rabindranath's life and imagination. More obviously, it constitutes a treasury of funny, colourful, thoughtful writing touched by the mind of an all-time genius.
| ISBN-13 | 9780195658736 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0195658736 |
| Weight | 1.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.50 x 1.00 x 8.50 In |
| List Price | $39.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 273 pages |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Published On | 2002-04-04 |
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