Premchand ki sarvshreshtha kahaniyan / प्रेमचंद की सर्वश्रेष्ठ कहानियाँ  (Hindi, Paperback, Munshi Premchand)

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known as Premchand, was one of the most popular Hindi and Urdu novelists, story writers and thinkers. He wrote about one and a half dozen novels like Sewa Sadan, Premashram, Rangbhoomi, Nirmala, Gaban, Karmabhoomi, Godan etc and more than three hundred stories like Kafan, Poos Ki Raat, Panch Parmeshwar, Big Ghar Ki Beti, Old Kaki, Two Bullocks Story etc. Most of them were published in both Hindi and Urdu languages. He wrote in all the major Urdu and Hindi magazines of his era, Zamana, Saraswati, Madhuri, Maryada, Chand, Sudha etc. He also edited and published Hindi newspaper Jagran and literary magazine Hans. For this he bought Saraswati Press which later remained in loss and had to be closed. Premchand came to Mumbai to write scripts for films and stayed for about three years. Till the last days of his life, he was engaged in literary creation. Mahajani civilization is considered to be his last essay, the purpose of literature as the last lecture, the last story of the shroud, Godan's last complete novel and Mangalsutra as the last incomplete novel. The literature of Premchand, written between 1906 and 1936, is a socio-cultural document of these thirty years. In this, there is a clear depiction of the social effects of the social reform movements, freedom struggle and progressive movements of that period.