“This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.”
Work
In A Career Spanning Four Decades, Ruskin Bond Has Mapped Out And Peopled A Unique Literary Landscape. This Omnibus Edition Brings Together All His Published Fiction, Remarkable For Its Charm And Quiet Wisdom. <br><br>In Addition To Over Fifty Short Stories, The Selection Includes All The Longer Works By Ruskin Bond: The Room On The Roof And Vagrants In The Valley, Two Classic Novels Of Adolescence; A Flight Of Pigeons, The Haunting Story Of The Capture Of A Young English Girl By A Pathan During The Revolt Of 1857; And Delhi Is Not Far, Where The Narrator, A Young Bisexual Writer, Describes His Ambivalent Relationship With The Streetwise Suraj And The Prostitute Kamla. Also Included Is The Sensualist, A Novella Which Created A Controversy When It First Appeared Over Twenty Years Ago And Has Not Been Published In Book Form Before.
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Ruskin Bond
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“This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.”
“It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.”
“The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.”
“This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as is often worked off paper first. The pace of narrative and interest in character do n...”