Selected Short Stories (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Wells, H. G.

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9780140181883: Selected Short Stories (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

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ISBN 10: 0140181881 ISBN 13: 9780140181883

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1989

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This account of Tagore's work includes an introduction, selected essays and a glossary and is intended to form a companion volume to his collection of "Selected Poems". In this particular volume Tagore reaches beyond documentary realism towards his own visions, which provide a vivid picture of Bengali life. Rabrindranath Tagore was a poet, musician and painter and as a grandmaster of Bengali culture concentrated on creating a new form of literature - the short story, while providing India with one of it's more well-known Romantic Poets. The author won the 1913 Nobel Prize.

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H.G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist who published more than a hundred books, including pioneering science fiction novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. He was a founding member of numerous movements including Liberty and PEN International - the world's oldest human rights organization - and his Rights of Man laid the groundwork for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Wells' controversial and progressive views on equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today.

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