Letters from an Expatriate in Europe - format ePub

Ecrit par le Prix Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana constitue une introduction profonde et accessible à l'héritage spirituel de l'Inde. Tagore, passeur par excellence de la philosophie et de...

Rabindranath Tagore écrit sa langue natale, le bengali, mais traduit aussi lui-même son oeuvre en anglais, langue qu'il possède parfaitement et dont il se sert avec une âme de poète et une perfection...

Considéré de son vivant comme le plus mystique des poètes et le plus poète des mystiques, Rabindranath Tagore est persuadé qu’une convivialité planétaire des civilisations, des cultures et des religions...

Every experienced teacher must have noticed the difficulty of instructing Indian children out of books that are specially intended for use in English schools. It is not merely that the subjects are unfamiliar,...

Perhaps it is well for me to explain that the subject-matter of the papers published in this book has not been philosophically treated, nor has it been approached from the scholar's point of view. The...

Mother, today there comes back to mind the vermilion mark at the parting of your hair, the sari which you used to wear, with its wide red border, and those wonderful eyes of yours, full of depth and peace....

A dry-fruit seller from Kabul with a heart of molten gold and a fist of iron. Escapades of naughty schoolboys travelling on a train with an unusual teacher. The decisive battle of skill and oratory between...

This is the English translation of Tagore's "Mukut" meaning crown, set in 16th century royal Tripura. The play is all ready for production. The Emperor's sons compete with each other in a contest of archery...

A pack of jackals howled out very loudly from a bush causing a minute-long hiatus in the schoolmaster's flow of words. It seemed as if the comically-inclined vulpines in that pitch-dark aggregation reeled...

Taught at college level across India, this gem of a short story originally written in Bengali in 1914, lays bare the heart of matrimonial relations in a significant part of nineteenth and twentieth century...

An unusual love story with a message of bliss. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's idealistic protagonist refrains from marrying his childhood sweetheart only to regret it years later. Then fate bundles...

The bard wrote at the conclusion of his sixth letter, "Then the Sun-god having contained his thousand rays laid out his tired head on the bed of multitudinous clouds leaning on sunset's shadowy peak and...

When a feudal lord from a far off place arrives in his boat, the villagers get all worked up and women who happen to be at the river bank draw veils over their faces like a set of curtains hanging down...

This short life-drama originally penned by Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali begins in an idyllic setting. While the clouds and the sunshine are the two prominent players in the firmament, on the earthly...

In the heart of Bengal, where the Ganges whispers secrets, unfolds a tale of love, longing, and the transformative power of nature. "The First Jasmines" by Rabindranath Tagore is a lyrical masterpiece...

Gitanjali, Song Offerings, publié sous le titre "L’Offrande Lyrique", ici dans la traduction française d’André Gide, est sans doute l’oeuvre la plus connue de Rabindranath Tagore, Prix Nobel de littérature...

Kabouliwala, la nouvelle la plus bouleversante et célèbre du maître de la littérature bengalie et prix Nobel, est pour la première fois traduite en français. Ce court récit est enrichi du texte original...

Révoltée depuis l’enfance, Ela étouffe dans les conventions d’une société indienne figée. Elle se passionne pour ses études et s’engage à corps perdu dans la lutte pour l’indépendance de l’Inde. Mais...

Riche brahmane, Bhupati n’a nul besoin de se mêler des affaires du monde. Il consacre pourtant sa vie au journal anglophone et progressiste qu’il a fondé. Accaparé par son travail, il délaisse sa femme,...

Kumudini a dix-neuf ans, la grâce d’être bien née, de goûter les arts et de prier les dieux. Elle vit dans la compagnie tendre de son frère aîné, Vipradas, humaniste fort accablé par le souci des dettes...

Publié pour la première fois en 1915, ce beau roman de Rabindranath Tagore, prix Nobel de littérature, a pour cadre le Bengale du début du XXe siècle où sévissent de graves troubles. Récit à trois voix...

«On vole à l’enfant sa terre pour lui apprendre la géographie, sa langue pour lui apprendre la grammaire. Il a soif d’épopées, mais on lui donne des chroniques de faits et de dates.» Ainsi s’exprime Rabindranath...

Inde, été 1940. Rabindranath Tagore passe ses dernières vacances dans la petite bourgade montagnarde de Kalimpong, près de Darjeeling. Entouré de sa famille et d'un groupe d'amis, l'auteur de "L'Offrande...

Comme Gandhi, la pensée anti-impérialiste de Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), le prix Nobel de littérature de 1913, prône un universalisme asiatique fondé sur le principe du réveil religieux. Mais on...

"Il fut un temps, m’expliqua-t-il, où je ne m’appuyai que sur la raison, pour découvrir ensuite que la raison ne pouvait supporter tout le fardeau de la vie. Il fut un autre temps où je ne m’appuyai que...

"Le printemps qui un jour en folâtre compagnie vint animer ma cour de son rire cristallin, bruissant dans les rameaux fleuris du grenadier dans les palâsha en épi, les vermeils kânchana, les pârul...

Le "Cycle du printemps" de Rabindranath Tagore est une œuvre poétique qui célèbre la beauté éphémère de la nature et évoque les thèmes de l'amour, de l'innocence et de la renaissance. Écrit dans un style...

Kabouliwala, la nouvelle la plus bouleversante et célèbre du maître de la littérature bengalie et prix Nobel, est pour la première fois traduite en français. Ce court récit est enrichi du texte original...

Rabindranâth Tagore (1861-1941) fut marqué dans son enfance par le climat panthéiste du mouvement religieux dont son père était le maître spirituel. Après des études en Angleterre, il revient en Inde,...

« L’Offrande lyrique » est l'œuvre majeure de Tagore, qui lui vaudra le prix Nobel de littérature en 1913, et une place dans la « collection Unesco d'œuvres représentatives ». À l'aube de la Première...

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen’s immortal creations — flatters herself that she alone has secured...

In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as...

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Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

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Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence....

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of...

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov...

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Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine (half St. Bernard, half Shepard), is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. But then he is kidnapped and sold to be a sled dog in the harsh and...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground...

By the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray...

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

This volume collects the complete writings of Virginia Woolf: 8 novels, 3 'biographies,' 46 short stories, 606 essays, 1 play, her diary and some letters. Contents: THE NOVELS The Voyage Out Night...

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As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

The most famous confidence-boosting book ever published; with sales of over 16 million copies worldwide Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie....

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

"The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" will open a world of success, happiness, prosperity, and peace for you. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can...

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In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin. Joyce masterfully...

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The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible is God’s providentially appointed Word for the whole world which reveals the name of the Father as “Jehovah”, and the name of His Son, “Jesus”, in whom...