TY  - BOOK
AU  - Premchand
TI  - Premchand : : the complete short stories
SN  - 9780143441298
U1  - 891.4335  
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Gurgaon
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Short stories, Hindi
KW  - Short stories, Urdu
KW  - Premacanda, 1881-1936
N1  - https://penguin.co.in/book/the-complete-short-stories-vol-2
N2  - ‘Premchand is India. If you haven’t read Premchand, you have missed out on a lot’ The Hindu

Munshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories over the course of a prolific career spanning three decades. His range and diversity were limitless as he tackled themes of romance and satire, gender politics and social inequality, with unmatched skill and compassion. By turns poignant, acerbic, comical and tragic, many of his stories powerfully invoke the countryside-its pastoral simplicity as well as its harsh realities-while others capture the hopes and anxieties that accompany life in a teeming city where the underdog and the exploiter are caught in an age-old conflict
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