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The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories

by Rabindranath Tagore

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  1. 01 - THE HUNGRY STONES

    29:20

  2. 02 - THE VICTORY

    15:43

  3. 03 - ONCE THERE WAS A KING

    18:17

  4. 04 - THE HOME-COMING

    15:02

  5. 05 - MY LORD, THE BABY

    18:20

  6. 06 - THE KINGDOM OF CARDS

    19:44

  7. 07 - THE DEVOTEE

    27:27

  8. 08 - VISION

    43:49

  9. 09 - THE BABUS OF NAYANJORE

    23:03

  10. 10 - LIVING OR DEAD?

    26:16

  11. 11 - "WE CROWN THEE KING"

    31:53

  12. 12 - THE RENUNCIATION

    19:14

  13. 13 - THE CABULIWALLAH

    19:20

The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories (1916) is a public domain work.

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A delayed train leaves two travellers in the company of a stranger whose confident talk turns into a story about an isolated marble palace. He has taken a job collecting cotton duties and chooses to live there, ignoring warnings about its nights. By the river, he hears footsteps and laughter without seeing anyone. The title story builds its unease through this difference between visible surroundings and the sounds of an apparently vanished world.

Rabindranath Tagore's 1916 collection presents Bengali short stories in English translation. Its preface credits several translators and identifies The Victory as the author's own translation. The palace tale's strange perceptions sit beside a more intimate account of a woman losing her sight while her husband and brother disagree over her care. Her efforts to calm their conflict bring affection, guilt and family obligations into the same conversation. Readers interested in social customs and the ways people explain troubling experiences will find both household drama and an uncertain supernatural atmosphere here.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, composer, painter, and thinker whose reshaping of literature and music left a lasting mark on the subcontinent. In 1913 he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.

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Pages
100
Language
English
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Chiquito Crasto, Pamela Krantz, KirksVoice and others