Puffin Classics: The Land of Cards

Poet novelist painter musician and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore was one of modern India’s greatest literary figures. This collection brings together some of his best works—poems short stories and plays in one volume. Be it the wit magic and lyricism of his poetry or the vividly etched social milieu of his stories or the sheer power and vibrancy of his plays Tagore’s versatility and unceasing creativity come alive in these writings. The title play ‘The Land of Cards’ is a satire against the bondage of orthodox rules while in ‘The Post Office’ a child suffocated by his confined existence dreams of freedom in the world outside. From a son’s cherished desire to protect his mother in the poem ‘Hero’ to a fruit-seller longing for his daughter faraway in the story ‘Kabuliwala’ Tagore’s works convey his humanism and his deep understanding of human relationships.