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"Hungry Stones" (Bengali: Kshudhita Pashan or Khudito Pashan) is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1895. The story is about a tax collector, who is sent to a small town and stays at a former palace which is believed to be haunted. Every night, he becomes more consumed by the spirits of the inhabitants of the palace from the Mughal times and a beautiful Indian woman. Also included in this collection are the following titles: The Victory, Once There Was A King, The Home-coming, My Lord, The Baby, The Kingdom Of Cards, The Devotee, Vision, The Babus Of Nayanjore, Living Or…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
"Hungry Stones" (Bengali: Kshudhita Pashan or Khudito Pashan) is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1895. The story is about a tax collector, who is sent to a small town and stays at a former palace which is believed to be haunted. Every night, he becomes more consumed by the spirits of the inhabitants of the palace from the Mughal times and a beautiful Indian woman. Also included in this collection are the following titles: The Victory, Once There Was A King, The Home-coming, My Lord, The Baby, The Kingdom Of Cards, The Devotee, Vision, The Babus Of Nayanjore, Living Or Dead? "We Crown Thee King," The Renunciation, The Cabuliwallah [The Fruitseller from Cabul]
Autorenporträt
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.