The best of Tagore ; Rabindranath Tagore ; edited and introduced by Rudrangshu Mukherjee.

"This is a Borzoi book"-- Title page verso.

Translated from the Bengali by various translators.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvi and pages 757-766).

SHORT STORIES: The Ghat's story -- The postmaster -- Little master's return -- Wealth surrendered -- The living and the dead -- Kabuliwallah -- Holiday -- Giribala -- The hungry stones -- Guest -- The Haldar family -- The wife's letter -- House Number One -- The parrot's training -- The patriot -- The laboratory -- The story of Mussalmani -- NOVEL: The home and the world -- PLAYS. The post office -- Red oleanders -- ESSAYS: Nationalism in the West -- Nationalism in India -- Construction versus creation -- East and West -- A vision of India's history -- The educational mission of the Visva-Bharati -- The religion of man -- Crisis in civilization -- Historicality in literature -- POEMS FOR CHILDREN: The captive hero -- The hero -- The palm tree -- Our little river -- The runnaway city -- SONGS: Nothing has worked out -- Only coming and going -- Through death and sorrow -- My Bengal of god -- Suddenly from the heart of Bengal -- If they answer not to thy call -- Blessed am I to have been born in this land -- This stormy night -- I know not how thou Singest, my master -- The suit -- When life has withered -- I'll overcome you -- Light of mine, o light -- Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people -- Thou hast made me endless -- You stand on the other shore -- The night my doors were shattered -- My lamp blown out -- Not your word alone -- Forgive my languor, o lord -- The cloud says, 'I am going' -- When my foot prints no longer mark this road -- Beyond boundaries of life and death -- My time flies -- There - in the lap of the storm clouds - the rain comes -- Because I would sing -- May farewell's platter be replete -- Stars fill the sky -- Has he come? Or hasn't he? -- A slight caress, a few overheard words -- POEMS: The spring wakes from its dream -- I won't let you go -- Swaying -- The golden boat -- Now turn me back -- The lord of life -- A half-acre of land -- Affliction -- Snatched by the gods -- Where the mind is without fear -- Death-wedding -- Pilgrimage to India -- The flying geese -- In praise of trees -- The child -- Question -- Unyielding -- I -- Earth -- Africa -- The day my consciousness was freed -- Concord -- The pall of the self -- They work -- On the banks of the Rupnarayan -- The first day's sun -- The path of your creation -- Delusions I did cherish -- I thought I had something to say -- I threw away my heart -- My heart, like a peacock -- I ask for an audience -- Our master is a worker -- The world today -- Why deprive me -- An oldish upcountry man -- Though I know, my friend -- At the dusk of the early dawn -- The Santal woman -- Through the troubled history of man -- Those who struck him once.