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This is a collection of literary giant, Premchand’s timeless stories which are not just an invaluable depository of the best of Indian literature, but that of the world. These stories present heart-rending accounts of life in rural India and the impact of debilitating poverty on the everyday lives of common people. The way poverty destroys human sensibilities is captured in heartbreaking detail in these stories. Kafan is Premchand’s most well-known story, which prominently highlights the nuances of this difficulty.
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Jan/2019
ISBN: 9789353490164
Length : 432 Pages
MRP : ₹199.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Published:
ISBN:
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Jan/2019
ISBN:
Length : 432 Pages
MRP : ₹199.00
This is a collection of literary giant, Premchand’s timeless stories which are not just an invaluable depository of the best of Indian literature, but that of the world. These stories present heart-rending accounts of life in rural India and the impact of debilitating poverty on the everyday lives of common people. The way poverty destroys human sensibilities is captured in heartbreaking detail in these stories. Kafan is Premchand’s most well-known story, which prominently highlights the nuances of this difficulty.
Premchand (1880-1936), considered one of the greatest fiction writers in Hindi, was born Dhanpat Rai in Lamahi, a small village near Benares. He wrote in Urdu under the name Nawab Rai and changed it to Premchand when his collection of short stories, Soz-e Watan, was seized for sedition in 1909. In a prolific career spanning three decades, Premchand wrote fourteen novels, two plays, almost 300 short stories and several articles, reviews and editorials. He edited four journals, and also set up his own printing press. Though best known for his stories exposing the horrors of poverty and social injustice, he wrote on a variety of themes with equal felicity-romance, satire, social dramas, nationalist tales, and yarns steeped in folklore.
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