Penguin Book Of Indian Railway Stories

The stories in this collection capture the essence of the Indian Railways - from the small-town station, at the time of the Raj, to the present day big-city station bursting at the seams.

The teening and varied life of the Indian Railway station and its environs have fascinated writers from Jules Verne in the 1870s to more recently Satyajit Ray, R.K. Laxman and more modern writers. In this anthology, one of India's best-known writers makes a selection of greattest railway stories the subcontinent has produced.

• Julese Verne
• Rudyard Kipling
• Flora Annie Steel
• Hon. J.W. Best
• Jim Corbett
• Khushwant Singh
• Ruskin Bond
• Manoj Das
• Intizar Husain
• Satyajit Ray
• Bill Aitkin
• R.K. Laxman
• Victor Banerjee
• Manojit Mitra

Abpout The Author
Ruskin Bond’s first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), essays, poems and children’s books, many of which have been published by Penguin India.

He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies.

He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.