Timeless Tales in Translation: A Representative Anthology of Bengali and Hindi Short Stories

'Timeless Tales in translation' brings together selected short stories (in translation) of the various Bengali and Hindi/Urdu writers from the Indian subcontinent. It includes the notable works of the most well-known Indian writers- Swarnakumari Devi, Rabindranath Tagore, Munshi Premchand, Jaishankar Prasad, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee and others. The stories selected contain some of the most groundbreaking, progressive, and thought-provoking writing in Indian Literature from 1855 to 1955, considered as an important period in the literary history of the subcontinent. A complex body of literature emerged in India during this period. The stories, chosen from that interesting period, cover a wide variety of subjects from historical to social to moral and they give us a glimpse of an intimate portrait of life, bringing out a meticulous picture of rural, semi-feudal India, in the colonial times.

Author: Chaitali SenGupta
Publisher: Black Eagle Books
Published: 10/27/2022
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9781645603283
ISBN10: 1645603288
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Asia (General)
- Fiction | Classics

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