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Premchan’s greatest stories have been given in this book. These stories are illustrated, written in simple language and are easy to follow for to motivate people to differentiate between and follow the good path over the bad.
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Apr/2019
ISBN: 9789353490560
Length : 208 Pages
MRP : ₹150.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Published:
ISBN:
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Apr/2019
ISBN:
Length : 208 Pages
MRP : ₹150.00
Premchan’s greatest stories have been given in this book. These stories are illustrated, written in simple language and are easy to follow for to motivate people to differentiate between and follow the good path over the bad.
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.
India has twenty-two official languages and many dialects spoken across the country. As we gear up to commemorate International Translation Day on 30 September, we bring a selection of classics translated from Indian languages to English which promise to introduce readers to great writers who would be lost without their translators. Celebrate the beauty of […]