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Penguin Book Of Indian Railway Stories

Penguin Book Of Indian Railway Stories

Current price: $19.95
Publication Date: January 1st, 2000
Publisher:
India Penguin
ISBN:
9780140240665
Pages:
200

Description

The stories in this collection capture the essence of the Indian Railways - from the small-town station, at the time of the Raj, to the present day big-city station bursting at the seams. The teening and varied life of the Indian Railway station and its environs have fascinated writers from Jules Verne in the 1870s to more recently Satyajit Ray, R.K. Laxman and more modern writers. In this anthology, one of India's best-known writers makes a selection of greattest railway stories the subcontinent has produced. Julese Verne Rudyard Kipling Flora Annie Steel Hon. J.W. Best Jim Corbett Khushwant Singh Ruskin Bond Manoj Das Intizar Husain Satyajit Ray Bill Aitkin R.K. Laxman Victor Banerjee Manojit Mitra.

About the Author

Ruskin Bond’s first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was 17, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has published a number of novellas, short story collections, books of essays and articles, poems, and children’s books. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and, the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Bond was born in Kasauli and grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, Delhi and Simla. As a young man, he spent four years in the Channel Islands and London. He returned to India in 1955. He currently resides in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family.