Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Raja Deen Dayal, Marianne North and Jan Ciągliński. Bengali village stories - a postmaster and the orphan who keeps his house, a child sent away to school, a fruit-seller from Kabul and the small girl he befriends - in the plain manner that made Tagore the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He translated much of his own work into English himself. Sixty paintings from 1800 to 1911, among them river views by Marianne North and village scenes by Gaganendranath Tagore, echo the waterways and rural roads of these stories.