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The Home and the World
  • Published: 7 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780140449860
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $42.99
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The Home and the World

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A leading figure in the Indian nationalist movement and a friend of Gandhi, Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913

Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable pressures of the home and world reflect the conflict in India itself, and the tragic outcome foreshadows the unrest that accompanied Partition in 1947.
  • Published: 7 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780140449860
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $42.99
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About the author

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Also by Rabindranath Tagore

The Broken Nest
Rabindranath Tagore: A BBC Radio Collection
The Best of Tagore
Nationalism
Selected Short Stories
Selected Poems
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