দেবদাস
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Cover: Expectation (c. 1895), oil on canvas by Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1906)
Devdas and Parvati grow up as neighbours in a village, quarrelling and inseparable as children, until the difference in their families' standing begins to count. Written in 1901 and first printed in 1917, Sarat Chandra's novella is the most often filmed story in Bengali and tells the fall of a man who cannot decide.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.