Best Short Story Collections
Set details
- Format
- Box set · paperback
- Total books
- 4
- Original price
- ₹850
- Final price
- ₹765
- Shipping
- Free · ships within 48 hours
Books in this set
Complete collection · 4 books
Contemporary Indian Short Stories Series I
This sheaf of fifteen short stories represents a cross-section of contemporary Indian Literature. Fourteen of them are translations. One each from fourteen modern languages of India and one is a specimen of Indian creative writing in English. Selected by the Sahitya Akademi's Advisory Boards of various languages, these stories provide fascinating glimpses into the panorama of Indian life, with its baffling variety, its rich contrast of the simple and sophisticated, the ancient and the modern. Here is evidence, if such were needed, that Indian literature is one of a stale uniformity but of a rich variety. This is the first volume of Sahitya Akademi's series of such representative anthologies in English of contemporary indian short stories. Second, third and fourth volume of stories written by different authors have also been published. Prof.Humayun Kabir has farwarded this volume.
Contemporary Indian Short Stories Series II
This collection of twenty-two short stories, written mostly between 1930 and 1950 by various authors, offers a snapshot of contemporary Indian short fiction. Twenty stories are translations from fourteen Indian languages, and two are original works in English. This demonstrates, if proof were needed, that Indian literature, despite being written in many languages, is unified - not by sameness, but by its rich diversity.
Contemporary Indian Short Stories Series III
This sheaf of nineteen short stories, written by different authors, represents a cross-section of contemporary Indian short fiction. Eighteen stories are translations from eighteen modern Indian languages, and one is a specimen of Indian creative writing in English. Selected by the Sahitya Akademi's Advisory Boards of various languages, these stories, provide fascinating glimpses into the panorama of Indian life, with its baffling variety, its rich contrasts of the simple and the sophisticated, the ancient and the modern. Here is evidence, if such were needed that Indian literature is one though written in many languages its oneness consisting not of a stale uniformity but of a rich variety. This is the third volume of Sahitya Akademi series of such representative anthologies in English of contemporary Indian short story.
Contemporary Indian Short Stories Series IV
This collection of twenty-one short stories, written by different authors, represents a cross-section of contemporary Indian short fiction. Twenty short stories are translations from twenty languages of Indian creative writing in English and edited by Shantinath K. Desai. This is the fourth volume of Sahitya Akademi's series of such representative anthologies in English of contemporary Indian short stories.
About the book set
4 volumes. 77 stories. Many Indias.
Discover India through its stories—the lives, relationships and everyday worlds that give its literature such extraordinary variety.
This four-volume set brings together Contemporary Indian Short Stories, Series I–IV, published by Sahitya Akademi. Presented in English, the collection includes translations from Indian languages alongside stories originally written in English, opening a window into voices beyond a single language or region.
Read a story at a time. Move between different perspectives. Discover how much can change—and how much feels families from one India to another.
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