The Hungry Stones and Other Stories.

TAGORE, Rabindranath.

$450.00

Item Number: 143008

New York : The Macmillan Company, 1916.

First edition of this collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper. Translated from the Original Bengali by Various Writers. First editions are uncommon.

The title story is a horror tale that has been anthologized several times. "My Lord the Baby" concerns reincarnation. "The Kingdom of Cards" is an allegorical fantasy. "Living or Dead" is a horror tale. A mystical streak runs through Tagore's fiction, not to mention his plays and poetry (of which he wrote over 100,000 lines). The author was educated partly in England, and he translated some of his own work into English, as well as sometimes composing in English. He received the Nobel Prize in 1913. Day, The Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature, p. 85. Carter (1989), p. 117.