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The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Kingdom of Cards, I
by Rabindranath Tagore III Once upon a time there was a lonely island in a distant sea where lived the Kings and Queens, the Aces and the Knaves, in the Kingdom of Cards. The Tens and…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Kingdom of Cards, II
by Rabindranath Tagore IIIIII In that far-off foreign land. across the sea, there lived a young Prince whose mother was a sorrowing queen. This queen had fallen from favour, and was…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Kingdom of Cards, III
by Rabindranath Tagore IIIVIII Up till now there had been nothing to disturb that island stillness. No new thing had ever happened. No discussion had ever been held. And then, of a…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Kingdom of Cards, IV
by Rabindranath Tagore IIIVIV The days passed one by one, and the placid existence of the Island went on almost without a ripple. The Three Companions obeyed no rules nor regulations.…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Kingdom of Cards, V
by Rabindranath Tagore IVVIV Hitherto the Queens of Spades and Clubs and Diamonds and Hearts had remained behind curtains with eyes that gazed vacantly into space, or else remained fixed…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Kingdom of Cards, VI
by Rabindranath Tagore V VII VI Where are vanished now their prim, round, regular, complacent features? Here is a face full of love-sick longing. Here is a heart heating wild with regrets.…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Devotees, I
by Rabindranath Tagore III At a time, when my unpopularity with a part of my readers had reached the nadir of its glory, and my name had become the central orb of the journals, to be…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: The Devotees, II
by Rabindranath Tagore III That evening the Devotee told me the story of her life. The stars of evening rose and set behind the trees, as she went on to the end of her tale. My…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: Vision, I
by Rabindranath Tagore III When I was a very young wife, I gave birth to a dead child, and came near to death myself. I recovered strength very slowly, and my eyesight became weaker and…The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: Vision, II
by Rabindranath Tagore IIIIII My husband at last had finished his medical course. He went away from Calcutta to a small town to practise as a doctor. There in the country I felt with…Trending
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