Shantiniketan
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217047463
Paperback|9780217047463
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Stray Birds FRONTISPIECE AND DECORATIONS BY WILLY POGANY $1.50 Written during his present visit to America, this book may be said to contain the essence of all Tagore's poetry and philosophy, revealed by many aphorisms epigrams and sayings. Here is the kernel of the wisdom and insight of the great Hindu seer in the form of short extracts. These sayings are the essence of his Eastern message to the Western world. The frontispiece and decorations by Willy Pogany are beautiful in themselves, and enhance the spiritual significance of this extraordinary book. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York chapter{{Section 4RABIIVDRA1VATH TAGORE'S NEW POEMS Fruit Gathering Perhaps of all of Tagore's poetry the most popular volume is Gitanjali. It was on on this work that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. These facts lend special interest to the announcement of this book, which is a sequel to that collection of religious Song Offerings. Since the issue of his first book, some four years ago, Tagore has rapidly grown in popularity in this country, until now he must be counted among the most widely read of modern poets. Another volume of the merit, the originality, the fine spiritual feeling of Gitanjali would even further endear him to his thousands of American admirers. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York The Hungry Stones and Other Stories $1.35 Some of the more notable of Mr. Tagore's short stories are here presented in translations by the author and with illustrations by native Indian artists. Ernest Rhys, in his biography of Tagore, devotes much space to a consideration of him as a short story writer, advancing the opinion that this particular form of literature is one of the most im...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217047463 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217047467 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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