Home and the World - Couverture souple

Tagore, Rabindranath

 
9780143031413: Home and the World

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Edition Penguin Modern Classics, New Edition, 2005. Translated from Bengali by Sreejata Guha. Introduction and Notes by Swagato Ganguly. ISBN: 978-0143031413. PAPERBACK. 240 pages. Just light tan to paper edges. Other than that, the new and unread book remains in excellent condition throughout: Soft cover intact; text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK.

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She was even prepared for this happening. But I did not consider it important enough to give her the pain of it. I have read in books that we are called "caged birds". I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe--at least that is what I then felt. The grandmother, in her old age, was very fond of me. At the bottom of her fondness was the thought that, with the conspiracy of favourable stars which attended me, I had been able to attract my husband's love. Were not men naturally inclined to plunge downwards? None of the others, for all their beauty, had been able to prevent their husbands going headlong into the burning depths which consumed and destroyed them. She believed that I had been the means of extinguishing this fire, so deadly to the men of the family. So she kept me in the shelter of her bosom, and trembled if I was in the least bit unwell

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