Fireflies
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000N2YEY8 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
12mo., 274 pages. Book otherwise clean, strong and undamaged. Very presentable. DJ with white printed floral decoration on black background. 1/2 black linen with gilt stamped title and boards covered with white floral decoration on black paper background, gilt printed label with title on face. Collection of aphorisms, some in verse, relating to spiritual and cosmological topics by monistic Hindu poet, novelist, playwright, painter.. DJ with edge wear, small chips and short tears, slight loss, somewhat rubbed; book with light edge wear through at corner tips. Copyright 1928
Five Stars schneffke excellent. Marvelous Though Little Read Now Oddsfish Fireflies by Rabindranath Tagore is one of the most beautiful books that I have ever read. I am not an expert on Asian literature; so, I cannot give very much background on the poems presented her. What I can say is that every poem in here is a beautiful and is a perfect thought no matter where it came from or who is reading it. This collection by the Nobel Prize winner is made up of fireflies. They are each only three to six lines long and present a single thought. The poems flow togeth. Not Haiku, but dissimilar Jack Purcell A friend gave me a copy of this book when I was entering the India X Peace Corps training project in 1964. "To be read in times of stress, but also happiness," it says inside the flyleaf. That just says it all. You don't need to think you enjoy poetry to treasure this book. Tagore captures moment after moment of the human experience, pierces each with an insight of his own and shares it with the reader. In a sense it bears a similarity to those little books of daily prayers or 'thoughts