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The Home-Coming

By Rabindranath Tagore
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Six stories which showcase Tagore's breathtaking range, his humanity and his empathy. In The Hungry Stones, a traveller is seduced by supernatural visions in a haunted palace, while The Skeleton gives voice to the dead in a tale of hidden passion. Tagore's humanity shines through in... Read More
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Six stories from master storyteller Rabindranath Tagore. One of ten pocket-sized paperbacks from Macmillan Collector’s Library celebrating the art of the short story.

Six stories from master storyteller, Rabindranath Tagore. One of ten pocket size paperbacks from Macmillan Collector's Library celebrating the art of the short story.

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Six stories which showcase Tagore's breathtaking range, his humanity and his empathy.

In The Hungry Stones, a traveller is seduced by supernatural visions in a haunted palace, while The Skeleton gives voice to the dead in a tale of hidden passion. Tagore's humanity shines through in The Cabuliwallah, a moving account of an unlikely friendship between a peddler and a young girl, and The Home-Coming offers a poignant study of a boy's longing for love. The Postmaster explores a rural orphan's quiet devotion, while Mashi depicts an aunt's desperate attempts to shield her nephew from the reality of his failing marriage.

Through his stories with their recurring themes of love and heartbreak, Tagore captures both the lives of ordinary people and the common experiences of the human condition.

This series of pocket-sized paperbacks celebrates the art of the short story and marks Macmillan Collector's Library's 10th anniversary. Each contains a curated selection of short stories from a literary giant: Katherine Mansfield, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, James, Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Alice Dunbar Nelson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Rabindranath Tagore.

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ISBN: 9781037403439

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 September 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 161.0mm

Weight: 80g

Pages: 96

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About the Author

Born in Kolkata in 1861, Rabindranath Tagore was an innovative polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music. In 1913 he became Asia's first Nobel Prize winner for his famous volume of verse and lyrics published as Gitanjali. Tagore's creative output was staggering, encompassing thousands of songs as well as novels, lyrics and poems, plays, personal and political essays and paintings. However, it was through his short stories that he reshaped Bengali literature, introducing a less formal style whose freshness and psychological depth was so different from traditional classical writing. With his elegant and charming prose, he captured the ordinary lives of both rural and urban dwellers whilst encompassing universal themes such as love, loyalty and hope. Tagore, who died in 1941, is remembered as India's most famous modern poet.

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