The Post Office: Play Guide and Free Edition
The Post Office: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
The Post Office is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Tagore, Rabindranath (1861–1941). The listed translation credits are Mukherjee, Devabrata.
Catalogue synopsis
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"The Post Office" by Rabindranath Tagore is a play written in 1912. It follows Amal, a child confined to his adoptive uncle's home by an incurable disease. From the courtyard, Amal talks to passers-by and dreams about distant places. When a new post office is built nearby, he imagines receiving a letter from the King. The play explores themes of freedom and imagination through the eyes of a homebound child facing mortality.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The Post Office
- Author credits: Tagore, Rabindranath (1861–1941)
- Catalogue language: English
- Translator credits: Mukherjee, Devabrata
Catalogue subjects
- Bengali drama -- Translations into English
- Indic drama -- Translations into English
- Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 -- Translations into English
Gutenberg collections
- Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
- Nobel Prizes in Literature
- One Act Plays
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