A TAGORE READER
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In celebration of the centenary of Tagore's birth, this commemorative volume presents extracts and excerpts and selections in toto from his works. Divided into travel, letters, short stories, autobiography, conversations, drama, India, education, art and literary criticism, philosophical meditations and poetry, each with its own explanatory preface and further notes by the editor, this presents many facets of the 1913 Nobel Prize winner, displays the quality of his mind and writing, reflects his position as a spokesman for India and the immediacy of his ideas. A collection that should represent this author to today's students of Indian culture or followers of Eastern philosophies.