The Daffodil Case

by Ruskin Bond

The Daffodil Case brings together the best of Ruskin Bond’s fiction and non-fiction. From the thoroughly delightful ‘Dinner with Foster’ and ‘Who Kissed Me in the Dark’ to spooky tales like ‘A Fright in the Night’ and ‘Wilson’s Bridge’, and classics like ‘Death of a Familiar’, ‘Voting at Barlowganj’ and ‘My Father’s Trees in Dehra’—this volume is a selection of some of Bond’s best works.One of India’s most prolific writers, Ruskin Bond creates a charming portrait of the quiet, unhurried life for his readers with this collection.

249 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 24, 2018

About the author

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Reviews

[Aruna Kumar Gadepalli · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of Ruskin Bond includes 26 stories, several stories to those readers, read Ruskin Bond looks familiar as they are repeated in this collection.

[Mustafa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of short(some are long) stories. And all stories are not related...

[Manoj Unnikrishnan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Daffodil Case is a collection of short stories by Ruskin Bond, published in 2018. It brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's fiction and non-fiction. The collection includes a wide range of stories, from humorous tales to spooky ones and from heartwarming stories to thought-provoking ones. The stories included are:

1. The Thief's Story
2. Gracie
3. The Room on the Roof (An Excerpt)
4. Dust on the Mountain
5. Dinner with Foster
6. The Daffodil Case
7. Toria and the Daughter of the Sun
8. Mrs Roberts
9. Topaz
10. An Evening at the Savoy with H.H.
11. Wilson's Bridge
12. Death of a Familiar
13. Hassan, the Baker
14. The Skull
15. Upon an Old World Dreaming
16. A Good Philosophy
17. The Lady of Sardhana
18. Bhabiji's House
19. Voting ar Barlowganj
20. A Fright in the Night
21. Ganga Descends
22. My Father's Trees in Dehra
23. The Walker's Club
24. Who Kissed Me in the Dark?
25. The Road to Badrinath
26. Once Upon a Mountain Time

The Daffodil Case is a must-read for fans of Ruskin Bond and anyone who enjoys well-written stories with a touch of humor, warmth, and nostalgia.

[Akshitaa Saha · Rating 5 out of 5]

the narrator was pasing through baker street where he met ruskin bond and decided to help him in a case. the case was that some one was stealing daffodils from a farm. whose so ever it may be it was some body who had worn heels and had a dog. this was found out by seeing the marks on soil. they both concealed their identity and waited for the crime to take place. as they thought the woman had come again to steal daffodils and this time they had caught her.

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ruskin Bond's writing is thoughtful and deceptively simple. Many of his stories can be finished in 30 minutes, but you might be thinking about them for days.

[k r e e t i k a ~` · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to believe that story

[Paromita Mohanti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[Bijan Choudhury · Rating 5 out of 5]

You need to get this book if only for the "Once Upon a Mountain Time "