Cautionary Tales [Rabindranath Tagore] || কশনারি টেলস [রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর]

Cautionary Tales contains selected stories by Rabindranath Tagore, translated from Bengali, spanning fifty years of the Nobel laureate’s contributions to the short story genre. The first section (Professions) gathers nine stories, including “Postmaster,” one of the three Tagore tales in Satyajit Ray’s film “Teen Kanya.” The second section (Marriage and Other Tribulations) includes four additional stories and “The Fouled Nest” (Nastanir), the novella that inspired one of Ray’s finest films, “Charulata.” Complete Table of Contents: Translator’s Note; Artist, Ascetic, Detective, Editor, Judge, Postmaster, Professor, Thief, and Tutor (stories under 'Professions'), and The Girl in the Middle, A Muslim Girl’s Tale, The Sentence, Superstition, The Nuisance, and The Fouled Nest (under 'Marriage & Other Tribulations').