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The Orient Pearls

The Orient Pearls

Shovona Devi

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Año de edición:
2026
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9798875467547

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THE idea of writing these tales occurred to me while reading a volume of short stories by my uncle, Sir Rabindranath Tagore; but as I have none of his inventive genius, I set about collecting folk-tales and putting them into an English garb; and the tales contained in the following pages were told to me by various illiterate village folks, and not a few by a blind man still in my service, with a retentive memory, and a great capacity for telling a story.

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