The Fugitive
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Summary
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy Tagore's poetry and want to expand their reading list
- Those interested in English poetry who are willing to read slowly and savor imagery
- Readers seeking quiet reading material to relax
- Readers studying Indian English literature or Tagore translations
Not a good fit for
- Readers looking for Tagore's representative works or fictional stories
- Readers who prefer fast-paced plots and lack patience for poetry
- Readers with weaker English proficiency who are unaccustomed to poetic language
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the overall mood, then choose favorite short poems to read aloud repeatedly.
- Keep paper and pen to mark images and recurring words, and observe the collection's sequence structure.
- Compare with English translations of other Tagore poetry collections to note differences in theme and tone.
- Read only a few poems each day to avoid aesthetic fatigue from finishing it all at once.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941) was a renowned Indian poet and writer whose work spans poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. The library holds thirty-three of his works, including the poetry collections Gitanjali, The Gardener, and Stray Birds, the novel The Home and the World, as well as Sadhana: The Realisation of Life and My Reminiscences. His poetry is known for its clear, melodious language and often explores nature, love, and the divine, combining philosophical reflection with lyricism; his fiction attends to social realities and inner lives, portraying the clash between tradition and modernity. Public information is limited and his full biography remains unclear, yet these works reveal a concise and moving style that has had a profound influence on later literature, inviting readers to encounter Eastern philosophical thought and humanistic care through his verse and prose.
