What is it that makes life worth living? What makes the everyday, ordinary world extraordinary even sacred? If we want to be truly alive there are few things we really need, a few sacred necessities: Amazement, Sanctuary, Stillness, Grace, Simplicity, Resilience, and Friendship. Unfortunately, we can't buy these things, nor can we force them to become a part of our lives. But if we are willing to accept rather than grasp at them, they will come to us as felicitous gifts waiting to be experienced and practiced. This is not simply a prescription for the good life; it is a gentle nudge to live with an open heart and a willing spirit.

DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited Rabindranath Tagore collection. Content: Poetry: My Golden Bengal (Amar Shonar Bangla) The Morning Song of India (Jana Gana Mana) Gitanjali The Gardener Fruit-Gathering The Crescent Moon: The Home On The Seashore The Source Baby's Way The Unheeded Pageant Sleep-Stealer The Beginning Baby's World When And Why Defamation The Judge Playthings The Astronomer Clouds And Waves The Champa Flower Fairyland The Land Of The Exile The Rainy Day Paper Boats The Sailor The Further Bank The Flower-School The Merchant Sympathy Vocation Superior The Little Big Man Twelve O'clock Authorship The Wicked Postman The Hero The End The Recall The First Jasmines The Banyan Tree Benediction The Gift My Song The Child-Angel The Last Bargain Stray Birds Lover's Gift and Crossing The Fugitive: Kacha and Devayani Ama and Vinayaka The Mother's Prayer Somaka and Ritvik Karna and Kunti The Child Songs of Kabir Novels & Stories: The Home and the World The Hungry Stones The Victory Once There Was a King The Home-Coming My Lord, The Baby The Kingdom of Cards The Devotee Vision The Babus of Nayanjore Living or Dead? "We Crown Thee King" The Renunciation The Cabuliwallah Mashi The Skeleton The Auspicious Vision The Supreme Night Raja and Rani The Trust Property The Riddle Solved The Elder Sister Subha The Postmaster The River Stairs The Castaway Saved My Fair Neighbour Master Mashai The Son of Rashmani Plays: The Post Office Chitra The Cycle of Spring The King of the Dark Chamber Sanyasi, or the Ascetic Malini Sacrifice The King and the Queen Essays & Lectures: Sadhana: The Realisation of Life Personality Nationalism The Centre of Indian Culture Thought Relics The Spirit of Japan Creative Unity Oriental and Occidental Music Letters: Glimpses of Bengal Letters of Tagore My Reminiscences – Autobiography

Pagination, vol. 1: xiv, 347 p.; vol. 2: x, 338 p.; xii, 384 p. LC copy, vol. 1 & 2, inscribed: O.W. Holmes, Boston. Vol. 1 has laid in, a ticket for a benefit concert for the Columbia Polytechnic Institute held at Foundry M.E. Church on Dec. 4, 1928 with pen notations on verso; vol. 2 has laid in, a Halloween bookmark of a printed, hand-colored pumpkin with cat inside with the name "J.E. Lockwood" printed in pencil on it. Contents, vol. 1: Robespierre -- Carlyle -- Byron -- Macaulay -- Emerson. Vol. 2: Vauvenargues -- Turgot -- Condorcet -- Joseph de Maistre. Vol. 3: On popular culture -- The death of Mr. Mill -- Mr. Mill's autobiography -- The life of George Eliot -- On Pattison's memoirs -- Harriet Martineau -- W.R. Greg, a sketch -- France in the eighteenth century -- The expansion of England -- Auguste Comte.