Monihara story summary

Account Options Logga in. Skaffa tryckt exemplar. Monihara and Other Stories. Rabindranath Tagore. Covering a variety of characters, settings, emotions and issues which highlight the complexity of human life, the short stories of Rabindranath Tagore included in this volume of translations reflect his mastery over the art. The stories contrast urban sophistication with rural innocence, provide a taste of the supernatural, examine the interplay of personalities within a household, and reflect upon the prevailing social orthodoxy.

Rural life in Bengal is portrayed vividly in these stories through the people and their concerns, the landscape, and the changing seasons. He attended University College, at London for one year before being called back to India by his father in During the first 51 years of his life, he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India with his many stories, songs, and plays.

His short stories were published monthly in a friend's magazine and he played the lead role in a few of the public performances of his plays. While returning to England in , he began translating his latest selections of poems, Gitanjali, into English.

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It was published in September in a limited edition by the India Society in London. In , he received the Nobel Prize for literature. He was the first non-westerner to receive the honor. In , he was knighted by King George V, but Tagore renounced his knighthood in following the Amritsar massacre of Indian demonstrators by British troops.