Fruit-Gathering was first published in 1916. Among the 86 poems contained in this book more than 50 are of religious temper collected from Gitimala, Gitali, Utsarga, Kheya, Naivedya and Gitanjali. The rest of the poems are from Katha and Balaka.FIREFLIES were proverbs, aphorisms and maxims originated in China and Japan and were often written on pieces of silk. Tagore visited Japan and collected them in his notebooks. Each firefly, rarely more than a sentence long, represents a luminous thought on love, life, beauty or God. Each page of this book contains a decorative design by Boris Artzybasheff with the short maxim of Tagore's beneath. The text also includes Tagore's Nobel Acceptance Speech.

Fruit-Gathering was first published in 1916. Among the 86 poems contained in this book more than 50 are of religious temper collected from Gitimala, Gitali, Utsarga, Kheya, Naivedya and Gitanjali. The rest of the poems are from Katha and Balaka.FIREFLIES were proverbs, aphorisms and maxims originated in China and Japan and were often written on pieces of silk. Tagore visited Japan and collected them in his notebooks. Each firefly, rarely more than a sentence long, represents a luminous thought on love, life, beauty or God. Each page of this book contains a decorative design by Boris Artzybasheff with the short maxim of Tagore's beneath. The text also includes Tagore's Nobel Acceptance Speech.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) wasa world-renowned Indianpoet, philosopher,educator, and also a short-story writer, songcomposer, playwright, essayist and painter. He was highly influential in reshaping and modernizingIndian literature and musicin the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as introducing the best of lndian culture to the West. Hispoemspenetrate a deep insight towards religion and philosophy.Gitanjali, The Crescent Moon and Stray Birds are his most famouscollections of poems. Tagore became the first non-European to winthe Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.