Rabindranath Tagore

Broschiertes Buch

Stories from Tagore (World Classics, Unabridged)

Beschreibung

A selection of short stories in English using Indian elements written by Rabindranath Tagore in order to help young Indian students in the past learn to speak and write English. These allowed quicker learning than stories which used stories set in Britain and contained concepts alien to Indian children.

Autor

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a painter, philosopher, playwright, musician and social reformer, in addition to being a poet and writer. He was instrumental in reshaping Bengali writing, music and Indian art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He became the first non- European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature for his famous collection of poems, Gitanjali. Tagore was referred to as 'the Poet of Bengal', and also went by the names Gurudev and Biswakabi.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 148g
• ISBN-13: 9789386686237
• ISBN-10: 9386686236
• Artikelnr.: 49022342