Omnibus 1: Gitanjali/The Post Office/Creative Unity/Hungry Stones & Other Stories/Gora/My Boyhood Days

by Rabindranath Tagore

The Rabindranath Tagore Omnibus I brings together six of Tagore's acclaimed works. It includes Gitanjali, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913, a selection of 103 poems that took the world by storm, Post Office, a symbolic play rich in allegory, both simple and sophisticated, considered a masterpiece in world literature, Creative Unity (1922), hailed as the finest of Tagore's essays in English, revealing some of his fundamental tenets on art, aesthetics, life and religion, His Hungry Stones and Other Stories, a collection of some of Tagore's best-loved short stories, Gora, a landmark in the history of the Bengali novel, covering the broad canvas of the social, cultural, religious and political life of the nineteenth century urban middle-class in Bengal and My Boyhood Days, Tagore's poignant memoir of his childhood days.

Genres: Poetry, Classics

1016 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.

The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....

Reviews

[Geetanjali Tara Joshi · Rating 3 out of 5]

beautifully written and amazingly translated..'My childhood days'is one of my fav from the book

[Fifa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved the big book !!! Short stories were wonderful...I had already read gitanjali twice before buying this book so i did not read it...also I skipped 'creative unity' it is non-fiction...Gora occupies the most number of pages in this book...great story !! Very Utopian !!!

Gora touches so many different subjects like Hinduism,customs & traditions,orthodoxy,religion,patriotism,racism,reformation & welfare of the society,Brahmo Samaj,human relationships..Finally done with this book..loved post office...my boyhood days was good too...did not disappoint...

[Mahrin Ferdous · Rating 5 out of 5]

“And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well...”

[Biyonko Banerjee · Rating 5 out of 5]

With only having scratched the surface of the universe called "Guru Rabindranath Tagore" - I believe the way Gurudev expresses the human emotion of those times makes you have a few deja vu moments for the present. This being one of the compilations of his great work - anyone who is interested in Gurudev's work should start with this book.

[Janice Raquela · Rating 5 out of 5]

A GOOD READ