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The King of the Dark Chamber

The King of the Dark Chamber

Tagore, Rabindranath

Hardcover

General DramaPlays

ISBN10: 1432605275
ISBN13: 9781432605278
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Jan 11 2004
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The King of the Dark Chamber is a play written by Nobel Laureate Sir Rabindranath Tagore. It tells the story of a young woman named Sudha who is married off to a man she has never met before. Her husband, the King, lives in a dark chamber and refuses to come out, leaving Sudha feeling lonely and trapped. She becomes friends with a gardener who tells her stories about the outside world and helps her to see the beauty in life. As Sudha starts to question the King's authority and the reason for his seclusion, she discovers a shocking truth that changes everything. The play explores themes of love, freedom, and the search for truth. It is a powerful and thought-provoking work that has been praised for its lyrical language and deep insights into the human condition.1914. The most careless reader can hardly proceed far into these inspired pages without realizing that he is in the presence of holy things, of an allegory of the soul as has not before been told in the English tongue.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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