The House of Wine (Madhushala)

Harivanshrai Bachchan, The House of Wine (Madhushala), London: The Fortune Press, 1950

pp. 46; 4 full-page illustrations by Norman Stannard; maroon buckram with fine a dustjacket, price unclipped [7s 6d]
7.7 x 5.3 in (19.6 x 13.5 cm)

Translated into English verse by Marjorie Boulton and Ram Swaroop Vyas with a foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru and Introduction by G P Johari.

The rare and only UK edition of Bachchan's verse was inspired by Omar Khayyam. The original Hindi version was published in 1935. Bachchan was a prolific poet and writer and among the early proponents of the New Poetry movement in Hindi.

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