Rabindranath Tagore, Author, Chitra Gajadin, Author, Helen Ong, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56397-120-4
This haunting reworking of a play by the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, with its mystical foreshadowing of a boy's death, will prove weighty emotional fare for some readers. Amal, a sickly child, is forbidden to step outside his house; from his
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Rabindranath Tagore, Author, Andrew Robinson, Editor, Krishna Dutta, Editor St. Martin's Press $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-16973-2
The remarkably versatile Bengali Rabindranath Tagore wrote poetry, short stories, novels, memoirs, essays and plays; he traveled extensively, painted, counseled politicians, lectured Einstein on the necessity of humanism in science and founded a...
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Rabindranath Tagore, Author, Grayce Bochak, Illustrator Boyds Mills Press $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-1-878093-12-7
A boy writes his name and village on paper boats and floats them down a stream, in the hope that ``someone in some strange land will find them and know who I am.'' Written around the turn of the century by Nobel Prize-winner Tagore, the unassuming...
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Rabindranath Tagore, Author, Joe Winter, Author, Joe Winter, Translator Anvil Press Poetry $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-85646-311-2
Of the 50 books of poems Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) wrote in Bengali, Gitanjali, or Song Offerings, may be the most beloved by readers of that language and singers, for Tagore made good on the title and turned them into songs. Tagore's own...
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Rabindranath Tagore, Author, Wendy Barker, Selected by, Saranindranath Tagore, Selected by George Braziller $22.5 (71p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1488-4
Rabindranath Tagore's poetry is notoriously difficult to transport intact from Bengali to English, even when the poet himself was doing the translating. Yet in a new selection of Tagore's Final Poems, written as the poet anticipated death (which
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