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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. More than a century later, his stories still feel startlingly alive.
In Selected Short Stories, one of the world's great literary voices turns his clear, compassionate gaze on ordinary lives caught at extraordinary moments. A haunted marble palace on a lonely riverside, a talkative child and the Afghan fruit-seller who loves her as his own daughter, a village boy exiled to the suffocating city, a mute girl given in marriage, a loyal servant destroyed by devotion -- Tagore finds the epic in the everyday, the universal in the intimate.
Blending lyric beauty with psychological insight, these tales move effortlessly between Calcutta streets and quiet villages, between ghostly apparitions and the harsh light of social reality. They are stories of love and separation, guilt and sacrifice, poverty and pride. But above all, the frail, fierce dignity of the human heart.
Admired by writers from W.B. Yeats to William Butler, compared to Chekhov and Maupassant yet unlike anyone but himself, Tagore helped shape modern world literature. His fiction has been read, retranslated, and rediscovered across continents for generations.
This collection is the perfect doorway into his work -- essential for lovers of classic literature, book clubs seeking deeply moving stories, and any reader who wants to understand why Tagore's voice, born in nineteenth-century Bengal, still speaks so powerfully to our own time.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction, Young Adult
Length4 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byChhavi Sachdev
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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