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নিষ্কৃতি
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Two brothers, Girish and Harish, their younger cousin Ramesh and their wives live in one house in a village of Howrah on the river Rupnarayan, and a quarrel between the women begins to split the joint family. Sarat Chandra's novel of 1917 is a close book about one household and its small economies of pride and affection.
9 chapters · About 59 minutes of published text
পথের দাবী
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Apurba, a young clerk from Bengal, arrives at his post in Rangoon and meets a circle of Indian exiles led by the shadowy doctor Sabyasachi, who plans to end British rule. Sarat Chandra's novel of 1926 was banned by the colonial government within a year of its publication.
31 chapters · About 388 minutes of published text
পরিণীতা
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Lalita, an orphan raised in her uncle's house in Calcutta, and Shekhar, the rich son of the family next door, grow up together in houses with one wall between them. Sarat Chandra's short novel of 1914 follows what happens when a quiet affection meets debt, pride and a rival suitor.
12 chapters · About 64 minutes of published text
পল্লী-সমাজ
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Ramesh, a young man educated in the town, returns to his father's village to take care of an estate and finds it run by the small cruelties of its elders. Sarat Chandra's 1916 novel is a portrait of a Bengali village, its factions and its young widow Rama, who has her own reasons to resist him.
19 chapters · About 144 minutes of published text
পাষাণের কথা
By রাখালদাস বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়
A stone tells its own life, beginning with its childhood as sand on a sea beach and going on through the temples, kings and invaders that it came to know after it was cut and set up. Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, the archaeologist who found Mohenjo-daro, published this book in 1914.
13 chapters · About 134 minutes of published text
বড়দিদি
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Surendranath, a gentle and careless young man with nobody to look after him, comes to live in a village household, and the 'elder sister' of the title, Madhabi, takes charge of him. Sarat Chandra's long story, one of the first of his to be printed, in 1913, is a quiet account of the care two people take of each other and of what the house makes of it.
10 chapters · About 52 minutes of published text
বিরাজ বৌ
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Biraj, a devoted wife in a village in Hooghly, keeps her husband Nilambar's house together while his easy nature and his debts wear it away. Sarat Chandra's novella of 1914 is a close look at a poor household and the strains of a marriage that has nothing to spare.
17 chapters · About 124 minutes of published text
বেতালপঞ্চবিংশতি
By ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর
King Vikramaditya is sent to a graveyard to bring away a corpse hanging from a tree, but the vampire that lives in it tells him a tale at each step of the way and ends it with a riddle that the king must answer. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's Bengali prose of 1847, taken from the Hindi, was one of the books that fixed the language of modern Bengali narrative.
27 chapters · About 113 minutes of published text
বৈকুণ্ঠের উইল
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Baikuntha Majumdar, a grocer in a Bengal village, has made his shop prosper against the odds and has taken his eldest son Gokul out of school to work in it. The will of the title and the brothers' quarrels over what is to be theirs make the story, a comedy of family life more than a tragedy, in Sarat Chandra's short novel of 1916.
13 chapters · About 69 minutes of published text
বৌ-ঠাকুরাণীর হাট
By রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
On a hot night in Jessore the crown prince Udayaditya sits at his window beside his wife Surama and wishes he had not been born a prince, while his father Pratapaditya, the proud Hindu ruler of the province in the days of Akbar, quarrels with his family and with the Mughal court. Tagore's novel of 1883, written when he was twenty-two, was his first, and he later drew a play from it.
37 chapters · About 175 minutes of published text
মাধবীকঙ্কণ
By রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত
A historical romance set in the Bengal of Akbar's reign, when the Mughals were still subduing the Afghan chiefs of the delta. It opens on a summer evening on the bank of the Bhagirathi, where two boys and a girl are playing on the sand. It is an early Bengali novel by Romesh Chunder Dutt, the civil servant and historian, published in 1877.
35 chapters · About 127 minutes of published text
মুচিরাম গুড়ের জীবনচরিত
By বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
The life of Muchiram Gur, a poor man's son of no talent who rises into the service of the government by flattery and luck, told as a mock biography. Bankim's short satire of 1884 is aimed at the new Bengali official class and its habit of climbing on those above.
14 chapters · About 28 minutes of published text
মৃণালিনী
By বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
At the end of the twelfth century a young prince, Hemachandra, goes to Nabadwip in search of his lost love Mrinalini while the Turkish raiders of Bakhtiyar Khilji gather beyond Bengal's borders. Bankim's 1869 historical romance sets a lovers' search against the legend of the fall of a Hindu kingdom.
46 chapters · About 129 minutes of published text
মেজদিদি
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Kesto, a boy of fourteen left an orphan by his mother's death, is sent to live in the well-off house of his half-sister, where he is overworked and beaten and finds one person to be kind to him, the 'middle sister' of the title. Sarat Chandra's novella of 1915 is a story of a household and of a child's loyalty to a woman who is not his mother.
8 chapters · About 34 minutes of published text
যোগাযোগ
By রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
Kumudini, the proud and sensitive daughter of an old, impoverished family, is married to Madhusudan, a self-made businessman with money and little feeling for what she values. Tagore's late novel of 1929 follows the two of them in their house in Calcutta, a marriage seen from both sides.
58 chapters · About 259 minutes of published text
রজনী
By বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Rajani, a blind girl who sells flowers in Calcutta, tells her own story, and the other people in it, among them the young man she loves, each take up the narration in turn. Bankim's 1877 novel is told in several voices and is among the first Bengali books to look at love from a blind woman's side.
32 chapters · About 88 minutes of published text
রাজকাহিনী
By অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
Stories of Rajput kings, queens and warriors of Chittor and Mewar, drawn from Colonel Tod's Annals of Rajasthan and retold in spirited Bengali. Abanindranath Tagore, the painter, published them in 1909 and wrote in a style that reads aloud like a ballad.
4 chapters · About 73 minutes of published text
রাজর্ষি
By রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
In the kingdom of Tripura a king hears a small girl ask why blood must be shed at the goddess's temple, and sets himself against the priest who serves it. Tagore's first historical novel, written in 1887, is a book on kingship and cruelty, and the plays Bisarjan and Mukut grew out of it.
45 chapters · About 145 minutes of published text
রাজসিংহ
By বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
A Rajput princess of Roopnagar, a small hill state, refuses the Emperor Aurangzeb's offer of marriage, and the Rana of Mewar is asked to protect her. First published in 1882 and enlarged in 1893, this is the book Bankim himself called his only true historical novel, a war story and a story of the courts.
19 chapters · About 59 minutes of published text
শেষের কবিতা
By রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
Amit Ray, a barrister back from England, quick with words and tired of conventional romance, meets Labanya in the hills and begins a love affair carried on by letters and verses. Tagore's playful 1929 novel mixes prose and poems and is a favourite of readers who think Tagore too serious.
17 chapters · About 119 minutes of published text
শ্রীকান্ত
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Srikanta, a restless young man with no home to speak of, tells of his boyhood friend Indranath, a boy of the river and the night, and of the people he meets as he wanders across Bengal and Bihar. The first part of Sarat Chandra's best-loved book, from 1917, reads like a memoir and has the warmth and humour of the author's own life.
12 chapters · About 166 minutes of published text
সীতার বনবাস
By ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর
The last chapters of the Ramayana as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar tells them in Bengali prose, in which Rama, having won back his queen, hears of the talk among his people and sends her away to the forest. Published in 1860, it is a classic of Bengali prose and was read in schools for generations.
8 chapters · About 73 minutes of published text
সীতারাম
By বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
In the seventeenth century a Bengali landowner, Sitaram Ray, gathers a following in the marshes of the south and declares a small kingdom in defiance of the Mughal governor. Bankim's 1887 novel follows his ambition, his two wives, and the faith of a woman who has left the world.
55 chapters · About 163 minutes of published text
개척자
By 이광수
The chemist Kim Seong-jae spends his life on an experiment that he hopes will lift his country, and the family money and the love of his sister Seong-sun are staked on its success. Yi Kwang-su's novel of 1917 sets the new man of science against old family duty.
78 chapters · About 171 minutes of published text