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The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: Vision, V
by Rabindranath Tagore IVV I found out after this that there were constant interruptions in my husband's professional duties. He refused all calls from a distance, and would hurry away…Wolf, Christa
(Encyclopedia) Wolf, ChristaWolf, Christakrēsˈtä vôlf [key], 1929–2011, German novelist. After attending the universities of Jena and Leipzig, she worked as an editor of literary journals. A…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: Vision, I
by Rabindranath Tagore III When I was a very young wife, I gave birth to a dead child, and came near to death myself. I recovered strength very slowly, and my eyesight became weaker and…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Devotees, I
by Rabindranath Tagore III At a time, when my unpopularity with a part of my readers had reached the nadir of its glory, and my name had become the central orb of the journals, to be…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Renunciation, III
by Rabindranath Tagore IIIVIII The next morning Hemanta, fagged after a sleepless night, and looking like one distracted, called at the house of Peari Sankar Ghosal. "What news, my son?"…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: Vision, IV
by Rabindranath Tagore IIIVIV Our two lives went on with their dull routine for some time. Then there was a break in the monotony. An aunt of my husband came to pay us a visit. The…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: Living or Dead?, I
by Rabindranath Tagore III The widow in the house of Saradasankar, the Ranihat zemindar, had no kinsmen of her father's family. One after another all had died. Nor had she in her husband'…Lardner, Ring
(Encyclopedia) Lardner, Ring (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner), 1885–1933, American humorist and short-story writer, b. Niles, Mich. He was a sports reporter in Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston from 1907 to…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: Living or Dead?, III
by Rabindranath Tagore IIIVIII Her clothes were clotted in the mud; strange thoughts and walking by night had given her the aspect of a madwoman; truly, her apparition was such that folk…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Babus of Nayanjore, I
by Rabindranath Tagore III Once upon a time the Babus of Nayanjore were famous landholders. They were noted for their princely extravagance. They would tear off the rough border of their…