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Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Civility is beauty of behavior. It requires for its perfection patience, self-control, and an environment of leisure. For genuine courtesy is a creation, like pictures, like music. It is a harmonious blending of voice, gesture and movement, words and action, in which generosity of conduct is expressed. It reveals the man himself and has no ulterior purpose. Our needs are always in a hurry. They rush and hustle, they are rude and unceremonious; they...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xxxii, 213 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable pressures of the home and world reflect the conflict in India itself, and the tragic outcome foreshadows the unrest that accompanied Partition in 1947"--
3) Gitanjali
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
xiv, 46 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When W.B. Yeats discovered Rabindranath Tagore's work in translation, he felt an intense kinship with a man, whose work was similarly grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire. For the Irish poet, Tagore's poems were at once deeply personal and essentially universal, like a secret kept by all and shared regardless: "I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Post Office (1914) is a play by Rabindranath Tagore. Published following his ascension to international fame with the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature, the play was introduced to an international audience by W. B. Yeats. When the Irish poet discovered Tagore's work in translation, he felt an intense kinship with a man whose work was similarly grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire. Brought to Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1913,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1914
Physical Desc
85 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
THIS lyrical drama was written about twenty-five years ago. It is based on the following story from the Mahabharata. In the course of his wanderings, in fulfilment of a vow of penance, Arjuna came to Manipur. There he saw Chitrangada, the beautiful daughter of Chitravahana, the king of the country. Smitten with her charms, he asked the king for the hand of his daughter in marriage. Chitravahana asked him who he was, and learning that he was Arjuna...
7) The gardener
Author
Publisher
The Macmillan company
Pub. Date
1913
Physical Desc
4 p.l., 150 p. front. (port.) 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
She dwelt on the hillside by the edge of a maize-field, near the spring that flows in laughing rills through the solemn shadows of ancient trees. The women came there to fill their jars, and travellers would sit there to rest and talk. She worked and dreamed daily to the tune of the bubbling stream. One evening the stranger came down from the cloud-hidden peak; his locks were tangled like drowsy snakes. We asked in wonder, "Who are you?" He answered...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. Tagore's poetry continues to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
ix, 121 p. : port. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1875 a prominent Calcutta journal published a suite of poems by a "newly discovered" seventeenth-century Bengali poet, Bhanusimha. The poems were celebrated, yet, several years later, critics realized that they had been drawn in by an embarrassing deception: the poet did not exist and, perhaps worse, the true author was a precocious fourteen-year-old boy, Rabindranath Tagore." "These poems, which Tagore continually revised over the next sixty-five...
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 819 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marking the 150th anniversary of Tagore's birth, this ambitious collection--the largest single volume of his work available in English--attempts to represent his extraordinary achievements in ten genres: poetry, songs, autobiographical works, letters, travel writings, prose, novels, short stories, humorous pieces, and plays. In addition to the newest translations in the modern idiom, it includes a sampling of works originally composed in English,...
12) A Tagore reader
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1961
Physical Desc
xiii, 401 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : facsimile ; 22 cm
Language
English
13) Songs of Kabir
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A weaver by trade and a mystic by nature, the 15-century poet Kabir created timeless works of enlightenment that combine the philosophies of Sufism, Hinduism, and the Kabbala. Expressed in imagery drawn from common life and the universal experience, Kabir's poems possess an appealing simplicity. This collection of 100 songs reflects nearly every aspect of the mystic's thought and emotions: ecstasy and despair, tranquil beatitude and fervid illumination,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 669
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Bengali
Description
Set in late 19th-century, pre-independence India, this film is about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning. It is about the lonely wife of a workaholic newspaper editor, Charulata, whose beautiful face masks a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him creatively and dangerously drawn to him physically. A delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the...
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xix, 822 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight--on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the...
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 1126 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An oversized anthology of dark and bizarre tales written throughout the past century includes entries by international best-sellers and award-winners, including Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Franz Kafka.
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry in association with the National Maritime Museum
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A discerning and entertaining anthology for all those fascinated by the sea, marking the 200th anniversary of the legendary Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Lord Nelson's death. The sea occupies four-fifths of the earth's surface and, from time immemorial, poets have turned and returned to the sea as a powerful theme or symbol. Blending well-known and unfamiliar, ancient and modern poetry, the anthology celebrates the sea's elemental, practical, and...
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
lv, 509 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For 90 years "Poetry" has been America's most distinguished magazine of verse. This 90th anniversary anthology may be the most bountiful collection of American poems ever published. It offers a record of poetic achievement as well as some of the vagaries, fads, fashions, and failures of the last 90 years.
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