Mashi and Other Stories gathers Rabindranath Tagore's haunting range at its most intimate and unsettling, moving from bedside tenderness to supernatural irony and moral conflict. In the title story, Jotin lies gravely ill while Mashi, the older woman who has become his true caretaker, protects him with quiet devotion as his young wife Mani struggles between household duty and the pull of her father's home. As Jotin faces death, he clings to fragile signs of Mani's love, speaks with serene ...

Rabindranath Tagore's lyrical one-act drama Chitra begins with a striking legend of identity and desire: the warrior princess of Manipur, raised as a son to preserve her father's line, encounters Arjuna in the forest and is awakened to her own womanhood. Wounded by his distant vow of celibacy, she turns to Madana and Vasanta not for mere romance, but for the power to be truly seen and loved. Granted a year of spring's irresistible beauty, she wins Arjuna's admiration by a lake, yet the enc...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

Six stories which showcase Rabindranath Tagore’s breathtaking range and empathy. The first Asian winner of the Nobel Prize, his work – written in Bengali across the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries – has resonated for generations.In ‘The Hungry Stones’, a traveller is seduced by supernatural visions in a haunted palace, while ‘The Skeleton’ gives voice to the dead in a tale of hidden passion. Tagore’s humanity shines through in ‘The Cabuliwallah’, a mo...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged by authors' last names: Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] Beauty And The Beast [Barbot de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne] The Law [Frédéric Bastiat] Cabin Fever [B. M. Bower] Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] Discourse on the Method [Descartes] Sister Carrie [Theodore Dreiser] The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas] A Simple Soul [Flaubert] The Good Soldier [Ford Madox Ford] North and South [Elizabeth C...

Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson - My River 9. P.B. Shelley - Love's Philosophy 10. Alfred Tennyson - Maud 11. E.A. Poe - Annabel Lee 12. J.Keats - Bright Star 13. Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress 14. E.A. Poe - ...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged by authors' last names: Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] Beauty And The Beast [Barbot de Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne] The Law [Frédéric Bastiat] Cabin Fever [B. M. Bower] Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] Discourse on the Method [Descartes] Sister Carrie [Theodore Dreiser] The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas] A Simple Soul [Flaubert] The Good Soldier [Ford Madox Ford] North and South [Elizabeth C...

The book is set in early 20th century India in the estate of the rich Bengali noble Nikhil. He lives happily with his beautiful wife Bimala until the appearance of his friend and radical revolutionist, Sandip. Sandip is a passionate and active man, a contradiction to the peace-loving and somewhat passive Nikhil. Bimala finds herself attracted to Sandip creating a love triangle. Although Nikhil figures out what is happening, he is a mature person and thus grants Bimala freedom to grow and c...

This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The ...

Songs of Kabir presents the luminous poetry of one of India’s greatest mystic saints—a voice that speaks with startling directness about love, truth, illusion and the divine presence within. Kabir’s verses move beyond religious boundaries, rejecting empty ritual and outward display in favour of a deeply personal experience of God.Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, these songs carry both spiritual intensity and poetic grace. They ask readers to look inward, to question inherited divi...

Philosophical essays. According to Wikipedia: "Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he was the first non-European who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual, and this together with his mesmerizing persona gave him...

Discover How Tagore’s Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own"Rabindranath Tagore’s philosophical and spiritual thoughts transcend all limits of language, culture, and nationality. In his writings, the poet and mystic takes us on a spiritual quest and gives us a glimpse of the infinite in the midst of the finite, unity at the heart of all diversity, and the Divine in all beings and things of the universe."—from the Preface bySwami Adiswarana...