Selected Short Stories

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance. A poet, songwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer, and novelist, Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1931.

William Radice is a poet, scholar, and translator of Bengali, who has written or edited nearly thirty books. He has translated Tagore's short stories and his novel The Home and the World for Penguin Classics.