Fourteen engaging stories from one of India's master story-tellers Semi-autobiographical in nature, these stories span the period from the author's childhood to the present. We are introduced, in a series of beautifully imagined and crafted cameos, to the author's family, friends, and various other people who left a lasting impression on him. In other stories we revisit Bond's beloved Garhwal hills and the small towns and villages that he has returned to time and again in his fiction. Together with his well-known novella, A Flight of Pigeons (which was made into the film Junoon), which also appears in this collection, these stories once again bring Ruskin Bond's India vividly to life.

Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra

Ruskin, Bond

Penguin

Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories

Literature & Fiction

BOND, RUSKIN

Genre Fiction

India Penguin

The book, the room on the roof, vagrants in the valley: two novels of adolescence, is a collection of two novels written by the famous indian author with a british background, ruskin bond the novel, the room on the roof, was the first literary work by ruskin bond, which was written by him at the age of seventeen and published at the age of twenty one this book was followed by the second novel, vagrants in the valley many believe that the second novel is a continuation of the first novel both novels have ruskin bonds signature simple writing style, masterfully described scenes of nature, and palpable emotion that is evident in the coming-of-age style of both stories the novel, the room on the roof is the story of a sixteen year old anglo indian boy named rusty who lives in dehradun this orphan boy happens to stay with his strict guardian, mr harrison, whose strict ways become difficult to live with for the young rusty this teenaged boy, one day, runs away from his home to stay with his indian friends the novel beautifully brings out the enthusiasm and the interest of rusty who is both inquisitive and willing to know about the indian culture and traditions the novel also brings out unexpected things that rusty feels and experiences the room on the roof, vagrants in the valley: two novels of adolescence is available in the paperback format and has been published by penguin india in a new edition in the year 2000 key features: the novel the room on the roof is the first novel written by the author the room on the roof, was awarded the john llewellyn rhys memorial prize in the year 1957

Room on the Roof

Penguin Books Australia

Collected Fiction

The making of a writer Ruskin Bond s first full-fledged autobiographical book covers his formative years, till the age of twenty-one. The world of Anglo-India, with all its conflicting pulls, comes alive as he tells his story. His earliest memoirs are bitter-sweet, and relate to Jamnager where he lives till he is six. The happy hours spent in exploring the Ram Vilas Palace grounds and playing with his younger sister Ellen and the palace children are overshadowed by the acrimonious relation between his parents. Their estrangement while he is still a child leaves him with a life-long sense of insecurity. His unhappiness is exacerbated by the untimely death of his father his emotional anchor when the author is just ten. Forced to stay with his mother and his stepfather, both of whom are absorbed in their own worlds, he tries to fend off his loneliness through books and the company of a few friends. Left for the most part to himself, the gentle dreamer realizes very early as a pimply adolescent' his calling as a writer. His first book, The Room on the Roof, materializes in England, the land of his forefathers, where he is sent to make a career for himself. Despite the unexpected success of his novel, which wins a major British literary prize, the author s yearning for India is too powerful to let him remain abroad for long. He returns and begins a writing career which has spanned four decades, and earned him a place in the pantheon of great Indian writers.

Scenes From A Writer's Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Autobiographical sketches and stories from India s best-loved writer in English. For over four decades now, by way of innumerable short stories, essays, poems and novels, Ruskin Bond has championed simplicity and quietude in life and in art. This collection of essays and episodes from his journals is, in his own words, a celebration of my survival as a freelance . The author s early forays into the literary magazines of the 1950s and 60s are described in the first part of the book, along with some examples of his work at the time. The sections that follow contain extracts from an unpublished travel journal he kept during the 60s, episodes from the highways on which he was a frequent traveller, and vignettes of life in Mussoorie, past and present. With understated humour and compassion, Ruskin Bond records the charming eccentricities of friends and acquaintances (a former princess cheerfully obsessed with death and disaster); the silent miracles of nature ( New moon in a purple sky ); life s little joys (the smell of onions frying) and its fleeting regrets. Nostalgic and heart-warming, full of wisdom and charm, The Lamp is Lit provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of our very own resident Wordsworth in prose .

Lamp is Lit, Leaves From a Journal

British & Irish

This collection brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's cameos, all beautifully imagined and crafted, inspired by people who have left a lasting impression on him. In addition, there are a host of characters culled from Bond's numerous short stories. Taken together, they constitute a magnificent evocation of the small-town India by one of the country's best storytellers.

Friends in Small Places

Contemporary

In When Darkness Falls, Ruskin Bond emerges yet again as a master storyteller. We meet the war veteran Markham, whose deformation ends in tragedy; Susanna, the merry widow who loved each of her seven husbands to death; and Kundan Singh, the reckless rake whom women find irresistible. There are also fascinating stories from the author s childhood, about the eccentric characters and memorable animals of old Dehradun. Told with Bond s classic wit, these charming stories will enchant and delight in equal measure.

When Darkness Falls

Ruskin Bond, the master storyteller, is at his inventive best when spinning out yarns for children.

Treasury of Stories for Children

Teen & Young Adult

Penguin books.India

Parvaaz

Penguin Yatra

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