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TITLE: Fruit Gathering
AUTHOR: Rabindranath Tagore
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co.
PLACE: New York
YEAR: 1916
EDITION: First
NO.OF PAGES: 123
BINDING: Blue cloth boards with gilt titles along with the dustjacket
SIZE:
Height: 19.2 cm
Width: 13 cm
Depth: 7 cm

THIS IS ACCOMPANIED BY THE SIGNATURE OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE WHICH IS PASTED DOWN ON THE FRONT FLYLEAF. A RARE SIGNED COPY OF INDIA'S ONLY NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN LITERATURE

3 owner markings, one in 1948 and one in 2007.

"Fruit-Gathering" is in its entirety as a gathering of various Tagore poems from other works. Rabindranath Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West".

In presenting the Prize to Tagore, Harald Hjarne, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy, stated: "In awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Anglo-Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, the Academy has found itself in the happy position of being able to accord this recognition to an author who, in conformity with the express wording of Alfred Nobel's last will and testament, had during the current year, written the finest poems of an idealistic tendency...Tagore's Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), a collection of religious poems, was one of his works that especially arrested the attention of the selecting critics."


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