Short Stories From Rabindranath Tagore

This is a collection of Tagore's short stories in English translation. They draw on village and town life in Bengal, with ordinary people at their centre: children, wives, servants, clerks and wanderers. Many are tender, some ironic, and a few touch on the supernatural. Tagore was among the first to give the short story a lasting form in Bengali, and these pieces show his sympathy for people caught between custom and longing.